1 Kings 1:4 · JPS 1917

And the damsel was very fair; and she became a companion unto the king, and ministered to him; but the king knew her not.

Who acts: damsel, Abishag, king · What happens: be, become, minister, not know · To what, where: companion, king, Abishag

This is 1 Kings 1:4 · 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 (damsel, Abishag, 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	_	6 fair	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 damsel	det
3	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fair	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fair	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 fair	advmod
6	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 became	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 became	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 became	nsubj
10	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fair	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 companion	det
12	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 became	xcomp
13	unto	unto	ADP	_	15 king	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 companion	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ministered	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ministered	cc
18	ministered	minister	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 became	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ministered	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 knew	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 knew	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 king	det
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 knew	nsubj
25	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fair	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 knew	obj
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 knew	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fair	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the damsel			fair property	tree rules
2	become	past	Abishag	a companion unto the king			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	minister	past	Abishag not said here		king		tree rules
4	not know	past	the king	Abishag			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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

וְהַֽנַּעֲרָ֖ה יָפָ֣ה עַד־מְאֹ֑ד וַתְּהִ֨י לַמֶּ֤לֶךְ סֹכֶ֙נֶת֙ וַתְּשָׁ֣רְתֵ֔הוּ וְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְ לֹ֥א יְדָעָֽהּ׃

1 Kings 1:4: 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:3 of Mova's parse database.

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