Psalms 34:1 · JPS 1917

A Psalm of David; when he changed his demeanour before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.

Who acts: David, Abimelech · What happens: change, drive away, depart · To what, where: demeanour, David

This is Psalms 34:1 · 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, Abimelech), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Psalm	det
2	Psalm	Psalm	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 David	case
4	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Psalm	nmod
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 changed	punct
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 changed	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 changed	nsubj
8	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Psalm	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 demeanour	nmod:poss
10	demeanour	demeanour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 changed	obj
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 Abimelech	case
12	Abimelech	Abimelech	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 changed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 drove	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 drove	nsubj
15	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Abimelech	acl:relcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 drove	obj
17	away	away	ADV	_	15 drove	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 departed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 departed	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 departed	nsubj
21	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 changed	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Psalm	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	David	David's demeanour	before Abimelech		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demeanour=Patient
2	drive away	past	Abimelech	David		away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	depart	past	David				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

לְדָוִ֗ד בְּשַׁנּוֹת֣וֹ אֶת־טַ֭עְמוֹ לִפְנֵ֣י אֲבִימֶ֑לֶךְ וַֽ֝יְגָרֲשֵׁ֗הוּ וַיֵּלַֽךְ׃

Psalms 34:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:PSA:506 of Mova's parse database.

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