1 Samuel 16:17 · JPS 1917

And Saul said unto his servants: 'Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.'

Who acts: Saul, man · What happens: say, provide, play, bring · To what, where: man, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 16:17 · 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 (Saul, man), 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 said	cc
2	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unto	unto	ADP	_	6 servants	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 servants	nmod:poss
6	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Provide	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 Provide	punct
9	Provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 Provide	iobj
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 Provide	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Provide	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 play	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 play	aux
16	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 man	acl:relcl
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 play	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bring	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bring	cc
20	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Provide	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bring	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 bring	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 Provide	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Saul				unto Saul's servants	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	provide	infinitive		a man	me	now		vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition i=Beneficiary man=Theme
3	play	can	a man				well property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bring	infinitive		man	me			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to i=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

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר שָׁא֖וּל אֶל־עֲבָדָ֑יו רְאוּ־נָ֣א לִ֗י אִ֚ישׁ מֵיטִ֣יב לְנַגֵּ֔ן וַהֲבִיאוֹתֶ֖ם אֵלָֽי׃

1 Samuel 16:17: 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:445 of Mova's parse database.

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