1 Kings 1:3 · JPS 1917

So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

Who acts: servants · What happens: seek, find, bring · To what, where: borders, Abishag, king

This is 1 Kings 1:3 · 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 (servants), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sought	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sought	nsubj
3	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 damsel	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 damsel	det
6	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 damsel	amod
7	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sought	obl
8	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	11 borders	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 borders	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 borders	det
11	borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sought	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Israel	case
13	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 borders	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 found	cc
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sought	conj
17	Abishag	Abishag	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 found	obj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Shunammite	det
19	Shunammite	Shunammite	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Abishag	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 brought	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 brought	cc
22	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 found	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 brought	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 king	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 king	det
26	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brought	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sought	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seek	past	servants = servant			all borders of Israel	for a fair damsel	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for damsel=Theme throughout border=Location
2	find	past	servants = servant not said here	Abishag				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abishag=Topic
3	bring	past	servants = servant not said here	Abishag	the king			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to king=Destination

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

וַיְבַקְשׁוּ֙ נַעֲרָ֣ה יָפָ֔ה בְּכֹ֖ל גְּב֣וּל יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַֽיִּמְצְא֗וּ אֶת־אֲבִישַׁג֙ הַשּׁ֣וּנַמִּ֔ית וַיָּבִ֥אוּ אֹתָ֖הּ לַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

1 Kings 1:3: 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:2 of Mova's parse database.

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