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title: 1 Samuel 26:25 (JPS 1917) — Then Saul said to David: 'Blessed be thou, my son David; thou shalt… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Saul said to David: 'Blessed be thou, my son David; thou shalt both do mightily, and shalt surely prevail.' So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place. Who acts: Saul, thou, David. 1 Samuel 26:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 26:25 · JPS 1917

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Then Saul said to David: 'Blessed be thou, my son David; thou shalt both do mightily, and shalt surely prevail.' So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.

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**Who acts:** Saul, thou, David · **What happens:** say, be, do, prevail, go, return · **To what, where:** David, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 26:25 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saul, thou, David), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:1SA:795
# text = Then Saul said to David: 'Blessed be thou, my son David; thou shalt both do mightily, and shalt surely prevail.' So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Blessed	blessed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	_
14	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
17	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc:preconj	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
20	mightily	mightily	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	prevail	prevail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
28	So	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Saul |  | David |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to david=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | thou |  |  |  |  | my son *vocative*; blessed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | mightily *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **prevail** | shall | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | past | David | David's way |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **return** | past | Saul |  |  |  |  | to David's place *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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וַיֹּ֨אמֶר שָׁא֜וּל אֶל־דָּוִ֗ד בָּר֤וּךְ אַתָּה֙ בְּנִ֣י דָוִ֔ד גַּ֚ם עָשֹׂ֣ה תַעֲשֶׂ֔ה וְגַ֖ם יָכֹ֣ל תּוּכָ֑ל וַיֵּ֤לֶךְ דָּוִד֙ לְדַרְכּ֔וֹ וְשָׁא֖וּל שָׁ֥ב לִמְקוֹמֽוֹ׃פ

[1 Samuel 26:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.26.25/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:795` of Mova's parse database.

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