1 Samuel 16:19 · JPS 1917

Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said: 'Send me David thy son, who is with the sheep.'

Who acts: Saul, David · What happens: send, say, be · To what, where: messengers, David, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 16:19 · 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, David), 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	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	3 sent	advmod
2	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obj
5	unto	unto	ADP	_	6 Jesse	case
6	Jesse	Jesse	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 Send	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 Send	punct
12	Send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 Send	iobj
14	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Send	obj
15	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 son	nmod:poss
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 David	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sheep	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 sheep	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sheep	cop
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 sheep	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sheep	det
22	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 David	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 Send	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 Send	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	Saul	messengers		unto Jesse; wherefore property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Saul not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	send	infinitive		David	me		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination david=Theme
4	is	present	David			with the sheep	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

וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח שָׁא֛וּל מַלְאָכִ֖ים אֶל־יִשָׁ֑י וַיֹּ֕אמֶר שִׁלְחָ֥ה אֵלַ֛י אֶת־דָּוִ֥ד בִּנְךָ֖ אֲשֶׁ֥ר בַּצֹּֽאן׃

1 Samuel 16:19: 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:447 of Mova's parse database.

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