--- title: 1 Samuel 30:17 (JPS 1917) — And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the… · tree and pragmatics description: And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day; and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, who rode upon camels and fled. 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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, man, hundred young men), 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:866 # text = And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day; and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, who rode upon camels and fled. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 smote smite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 twilight twilight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 even even ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 unto unto ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 19 expl _ _ 19 escaped escape VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 save save ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 29 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 upon upon ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 camels camel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 fled flee VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 38 . . 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 | **smite** | past | David | land | | the twilight | evening | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | | 2 | **not** **escape** | past | a man of David save hundred young men | | | there | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **ride** | past | hundred young men | | | | | upon camels | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **flee** | past | hundred young men *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} וַיַּכֵּ֥ם דָּוִ֛ד מֵהַנֶּ֥שֶׁף וְעַד־הָעֶ֖רֶב לְמָֽחֳרָתָ֑ם וְלֹֽא־נִמְלַ֤ט מֵהֶם֙ אִ֔ישׁ כִּי֩ אִם־אַרְבַּ֨ע מֵא֧וֹת אִֽישׁ־נַ֛עַר אֲשֶׁר־רָכְב֥וּ עַל־הַגְּמַלִּ֖ים וַיָּנֻֽסוּ׃ [1 Samuel 30:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.30.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:866` 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 30:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.865/) - next →: [1 Samuel 30:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.867/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 30:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.30.17/)