1 Kings 1:23 · JPS 1917
And they told the king, saying: 'Behold Nathan the prophet.' And when he was come in before the king, he bowed down before the king with his face to the ground.
Who acts: Nathan, king · What happens: tell, say, come in, bow down · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Kings 1:23 · 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 (Nathan, king), 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 told | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saying | punct |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 told | advcl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Behold | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Behold | punct |
| 10 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 11 Nathan | discourse |
| 11 | Nathan | Nathan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 saying | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prophet | det |
| 13 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Nathan | appos |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Nathan | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Nathan | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bowed | cc |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 come | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 come | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 bowed | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 king | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 bowed | nsubj |
| 27 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 28 | down | down | ADV | _ | 27 bowed | advmod |
| 29 | before | before | ADP | _ | 31 king | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 king | det |
| 31 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bowed | obl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 face | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 face | nmod:poss |
| 34 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bowed | obl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 ground | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 ground | det |
| 37 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 face | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Nathan | the king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Nathan not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come in | past · passive | king | before the king | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before king=Location | ||||
| 4 | bow down | past | king | before the king | with king's face to the ground; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before king=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
וַיַּגִּ֤ידוּ לַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר הִנֵּ֖ה נָתָ֣ן הַנָּבִ֑יא וַיָּבֹא֙ לִפְנֵ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וַיִּשְׁתַּ֧חוּ לַמֶּ֛לֶךְ עַל־אַפָּ֖יו אָֽרְצָה׃
1 Kings 1:23: 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:23 of Mova's parse database.
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