1 Chronicles 19:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And David said: 'l will show kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.' So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father.
Who acts: David, l, father · What happens: say, show, send, comfort · To what, where: kindness, me, messengers, Nahash · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Chronicles 19:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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, l, father), 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 | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 show | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 show | punct |
| 6 | l | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 show | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 show | aux |
| 8 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 show | obj |
| 10 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 11 Hanun | case |
| 11 | Hanun | Hanun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 show | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 son | det |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Hanun | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Nahash | case |
| 15 | Nahash | Nahash | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 showed | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 showed | mark |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 showed | nsubj |
| 20 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 show | advcl |
| 21 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 showed | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 showed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 show | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 show | punct |
| 26 | So | so | ADV | _ | 28 sent | advmod |
| 27 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 sent | nsubj |
| 28 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 29 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 sent | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 comfort | mark |
| 31 | comfort | comfort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 sent | advcl |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 comfort | obj |
| 33 | concerning | concern | ADP | _ | 35 father | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 father | nmod:poss |
| 35 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 comfort | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | David | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | show | future | l | kindness | unto Hanun | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kindness=Recipient | |||
| 3 | show | past | Nahash's father | kindness | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kindness=Topic to i=Recipient | |||
| 4 | send | past | David | messengers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme | ||||
| 5 | comfort | to-infinitive | David not said here | Nahash | concern Nahash's father | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר דָּוִ֜יד אֶֽעֱשֶׂה־חֶ֣סֶד ׀ עִם־חָנ֣וּן בֶּן־נָחָ֗שׁ כִּֽי־עָשָׂ֨ה אָבִ֤יו עִמִּי֙ חֶ֔סֶד וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח דָּוִ֛יד מַלְאָכִ֖ים לְנַחֲמ֣וֹ עַל־אָבִ֑יו וַיָּבֹאוּ֩ עַבְדֵ֨י דָוִ֜יד אֶל־אֶ֧רֶץ בְּנֵי־עַמּ֛וֹן אֶל־חָנ֖וּן לְנַחֲמֽוֹ׃
1 Chronicles 19:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And David said: 'l will show kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.' So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father.
- And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1CH:714 of Mova's parse database.
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