1 Samuel 14:28 · JPS 1917

Then answered one of the people, and said: 'Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying: Cursed be the man that eateth food this day; and the people are faint.'

Who acts: one, father, man, people · What happens: answer, say, charge, curse, eat, be · To what, where: people, man, food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 14:28 · 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 (one, father, man, people), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 answered	advmod
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 answered	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 people	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 answered	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 charged	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 charged	punct
12	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 charged	nsubj
14	straitly	straitly	ADV	_	15 charged	advmod
15	charged	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 people	det
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 charged	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 oath	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 oath	det
20	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 charged	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saying	punct
22	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 charged	advcl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 Cursed	punct
24	Cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 saying	ccomp
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 Cursed	aux:pass
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 man	det
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Cursed	nsubj:pass
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 eateth	nsubj
29	eateth	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 man	acl:relcl
30	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 eateth	obj
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 day	det
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 eateth	obl:unmarked
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 faint	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 faint	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 people	det
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 faint	nsubj
37	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 faint	cop
38	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 charged	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 answered	punct
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 answered	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	one of the people			then		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	one of the people not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	charge	past	Thy father		the people		with a oath; straitly property	vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient with oath=Theme
4	say speech: assert	gerund	Thy father not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	curse	infinitive · passive		the man				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	eat	present	the man	food		day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
7	is	present	the people				faint property	tree rules

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

וַיַּעַן֩ אִ֨ישׁ מֵֽהָעָ֜ם וַיֹּ֗אמֶר הַשְׁבֵּעַ֩ הִשְׁבִּ֨יעַ אָבִ֤יךָ אֶת־הָעָם֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר אָר֥וּר הָאִ֛ישׁ אֲשֶׁר־יֹ֥אכַל לֶ֖חֶם הַיּ֑וֹם וַיָּ֖עַף הָעָֽם׃

1 Samuel 14:28: 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:1SA:356 of Mova's parse database.

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