1 Chronicles 11:20 · JPS 1917
And Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and slew them, and had a name among the three.
Who acts: Joab · What happens: be, lift up, slay, have · To what, where: chief, spear, three hundred, men, name
This is 1 Chronicles 11:20 · 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 (Joab), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 chief | cc |
| 2 | Abishai | Abishai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 chief | dislocated |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brother | det |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Abishai | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Joab | case |
| 7 | Joab | Joab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 brother | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Abishai | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 chief | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 chief | cop |
| 11 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 three | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 three | det |
| 14 | three | three | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chief | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 lifted | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 lifted | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lifted | nsubj |
| 18 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 chief | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 lifted | compound:prt |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 spear | nmod:poss |
| 21 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lifted | obj |
| 22 | against | against | ADP | _ | 24 hundred | case |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 hundred | nummod |
| 24 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 lifted | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 slew | cc |
| 26 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lifted | conj |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 slew | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 had | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 had | cc |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lifted | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 name | det |
| 32 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 had | obj |
| 33 | among | among | ADP | _ | 35 three | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 three | det |
| 35 | three | three | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 name | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 chief | punct |
Pragmatics
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Joab | chief | of the three; Abishai dislocated | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lift up | past | Joab | Joab's spear | three hundred | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spear=Theme against hundred=Destination | |||
| 3 | slay | past | Joab not said here | men = man | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Joab not said here | a name | among the three | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
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
וְאַבְשַׁ֣י אֲחִֽי־יוֹאָ֗ב ה֤וּאהָיָה֙ רֹ֣אשׁ הַשְּׁלוֹשָׁ֔ה וְהוּא֙ עוֹרֵ֣ר אֶת־חֲנִית֔וֹ עַל־שְׁלֹ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת חָלָ֑ל וְלוֹ־שֵׁ֖ם בַּשְּׁלוֹשָֽׁה׃
1 Chronicles 11:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1CH:493 of Mova's parse database.
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