1 Chronicles 21:30 · JPS 1917
But David could not go before it to inquire of God; for he was terrified because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
Who acts: David · What happens: not go, inquire, be · To what, where: altar
This is 1 Chronicles 21:30 · 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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 go | cc |
| 2 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 go | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 inquire | mark |
| 9 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | advcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 God | case |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 inquire | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 terrified | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 terrified | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 terrified | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 terrified | cop |
| 16 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 go | advcl |
| 17 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 20 sword | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 because | fixed |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sword | det |
| 20 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 terrified | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 angel | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 angel | det |
| 23 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sword | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 LORD | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 LORD | det |
| 26 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 angel | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | could | David | altar | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before it=Location | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | to-infinitive | David not said here | of God | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of god=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | David | because the sword of the angel of the LORD; terrified property | tree rules |
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
וְלֹא־יָכֹ֥ל דָּוִ֛יד לָלֶ֥כֶת לְפָנָ֖יו לִדְרֹ֣שׁ אֱלֹהִ֑ים כִּ֣י נִבְעַ֔ת מִפְּנֵ֕י חֶ֖רֶב מַלְאַ֥ךְ יְהוָֽה׃ס
1 Chronicles 21:30: 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:784 of Mova's parse database.
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