--- title: 1 Samuel 30:11 (JPS 1917) — And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, a… · tree and pragmatics description: And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they gave him water to drink; Who acts: David, Abiathar. 1 Samuel 30:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.860/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [1 Samuel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/) / [chapter 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/30/) / [30:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.30.11/) / JPS 1 # 1 Samuel 30:11 · JPS 1917 And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they gave him water to drink; **Who acts:** David, Abiathar · **What happens:** find, bring, give, eat, drink · **To what, where:** Egyptian, field, Abiathar, David, bread, water This is 1 Samuel 30:11 · 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 (David, Abiathar), 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:860 # text = And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they gave him water to drink; 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Egyptian Egyptian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ _ 30 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | David | a Egyptian | | the field | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egyptian=Topic | | 2 | **bring** | past | David *not said here* | Abiathar | David | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to david=Destination | | 3 | **give** | past | David *not said here* | bread | Abiathar | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bread=Theme | | 4 | **eat** | past · do-support | Abiathar | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **give** | past | David | water | Abiathar | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient water=Theme | | 6 | **drink** | to-infinitive | David *not said here* | water *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} וַֽיִּמְצְא֤וּ אִישׁ־מִצְרִי֙ בַּשָּׂדֶ֔ה וַיִּקְח֥וּ אֹת֖וֹ אֶל־דָּוִ֑ד וַיִּתְּנוּ־ל֥וֹ לֶ֙חֶם֙ וַיֹּ֔אכַל וַיַּשְׁקֻ֖הוּ מָֽיִם׃ [1 Samuel 30:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.30.11/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:860` 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. - ← previous: [1 Samuel 30:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.859/) - next →: [1 Samuel 30:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.861/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 30:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.30.11/)