1 Chronicles 21:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
Who acts: David · What happens: clothe, fall · To what, where: David, faces
This is 1 Chronicles 21:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 fell | advmod |
| 2 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 elders | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 elders | det |
| 5 | elders | elder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 David | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 clothed | punct |
| 7 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 David | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sackcloth | case |
| 9 | sackcloth | sackcloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clothed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 David | punct |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 faces | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 faces | nmod:poss |
| 14 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fell | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clothe | participle | David and the elders not said here | in sackcloth | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in sackcloth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | David and the elders | elders's faces | then | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon face=Location |
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
וַיִּשָּׂ֨א דָוִ֜יד אֶת־עֵינָ֗יו וַיַּ֞רְא אֶת־מַלְאַ֤ךְ יְהוָה֙ עֹמֵ֗ד בֵּ֤ין הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ וּבֵ֣ין הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וְחַרְבּ֤וֹ שְׁלוּפָה֙ בְּיָד֔וֹ נְטוּיָ֖ה עַל־יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וַיִּפֹּ֨ל דָּוִ֧יד וְהַזְּקֵנִ֛ים מְכֻסִּ֥ים בַּשַּׂקִּ֖ים עַל־פְּנֵיהֶֽם׃
1 Chronicles 21:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD standing between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem.
- Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1CH:769 of Mova's parse database.
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