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title: 1 Samuel 29:5 (JPS 1917) — Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, sayin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying: Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?' Who acts: this, princes, Saul. 1 Samuel 29:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 29:5 · JPS 1917

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Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying: Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?'

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**Who acts:** this, princes, Saul · **What happens:** not be, sing, say, slay · **To what, where:** David, one, another, dances, thousands · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 29:5 · 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 (this, princes, Saul), 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:842
# text = Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying: Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?'
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	one	one	PRON	CD	_	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Rcp	9	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	dances	dance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, form=q, voice=character, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | this | David |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | princes *= prince* | one | another | dances |  | of David | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Topic to another=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | princes *= prince* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **slay** | present · perfect | Saul | Saul's thousands |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient |

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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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הֲלוֹא־זֶ֣ה דָוִ֔ד אֲשֶׁ֧ר יַעֲנוּ־ל֛וֹ בַּמְּחֹל֖וֹת לֵאמֹ֑ר הִכָּ֤ה שָׁאוּל֙ בַּֽאֲלָפָ֔יו וְדָוִ֖ד בְּרִבְבֹתָֽיו׃ס

[1 Samuel 29:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.29.5/)

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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:842` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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