1 Samuel 16:21 · JPS 1917

And David came to Saul, and stood before him; and he loved him greatly; and he became his armour-bearer.

Who acts: David · What happens: come, stand, love, become · To what, where: Saul, armour bearer

This is 1 Samuel 16:21 · 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 (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 came	cc
2	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Saul	case
5	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stood	cc
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stood	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 loved	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 loved	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 loved	nsubj
14	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 loved	obj
16	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	14 loved	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 became	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 became	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 became	nsubj
20	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 bearer	nmod:poss
22	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bearer	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 armour	punct
24	bearer	bearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 became	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	David		Saul			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to saul=Initial_Location
2	stand	past	David not said here			before David		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
3	love	past	David	Saul			greatly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	become	past	David	David's armour bearer				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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

וַיָּבֹ֤א דָוִד֙ אֶל־שָׁא֔וּל וַֽיַּעֲמֹ֖ד לְפָנָ֑יו וַיֶּאֱהָבֵ֣הֽוּ מְאֹ֔ד וַֽיְהִי־ל֖וֹ נֹשֵׂ֥א כֵלִֽים׃

1 Samuel 16:21: 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:449 of Mova's parse database.

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