1 Kings 3:20 · JPS 1917

And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thy handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

Who acts: child, handmaid, my · What happens: arise, take, sleep, lay, bosom · To what, where: son, handmaid, bosom, dead child

This is 1 Kings 3:20 · 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 (child, handmaid, my), 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 arose	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 arose	nsubj
3	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 midnight	case
5	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arose	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 took	cc
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arose	conj
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 me	case
12	beside	beside	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 took	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 slept	punct
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 slept	mark
16	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 handmaid	nmod:poss
17	handmaid	handmaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 slept	nsubj
18	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 took	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 laid	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 laid	cc
21	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 took	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 laid	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 bosom	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 bosom	nmod:poss
25	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 laid	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 laid	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 laid	cc
28	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 took	conj
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 child	nmod:poss
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 child	amod
31	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 laid	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 bosom	case
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 bosom	nmod:poss
34	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 laid	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 arose	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arise	past	child			midnight		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past	child not said here	my son			from me	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent son=Theme from i=Initial_Location
3	sleep	past	thy handmaid					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lay	past	child not said here	handmaid	child's bosom			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bosom=Destination
5	lay	past	child not said here	child's dead child	my bosom			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme in bosom=Destination
6	bosom		child					nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent
7	bosom		my					nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent

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

וַתָּקָם֩ בְּת֨וֹךְ הַלַּ֜יְלָה וַתִּקַּ֧ח אֶת־בְּנִ֣י מֵֽאֶצְלִ֗י וַאֲמָֽתְךָ֙ יְשֵׁנָ֔ה וַתַּשְׁכִּיבֵ֖הוּ בְּחֵיקָ֑הּ וְאֶת־בְּנָ֥הּ הַמֵּ֖ת הִשְׁכִּ֥יבָה בְחֵיקִֽי׃

1 Kings 3:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1KI:128 of Mova's parse database.

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