Mova0.5 pre-release⌕
☰
home / corpora / Tanakh / Nevi'im / 1 Samuel / chapter 16 / 16:23 / JPS 1

1 Samuel 16:23 · JPS 1917

And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took the harp, and played with his hand; so Saul found relief, and it was well with him, and the evil spirit departed from him.

Who acts: favour, evil spirit, David, Saul · What happens: come, pass, be, take, play, find · To what, where: harp, relief

This is 1 Samuel 16:23 · 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 (favour, evil spirit, David, Saul), 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

ccnsubjmarkxcomppunctmarkdetamodnsubjcasenmodcopcaseadvclpunctmarknsubjccompdetobjpunctccconjcasenmod:possoblpunctadvmodnsubjconjobjpunctccnsubjcopconjcaseoblpunctccdetamodnsubjconjcaseoblpunctrootAndCCONJitPRONcameVERBtoPARTpassVERB,PUNCTwhenSCONJtheDETevilADJspiritNOUNfromADPGodPROPNwasAUXuponADPSaulPROPN,PUNCTthatSCONJDavidPROPNtookVERBtheDETharpNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJplayedVERBwithADPhisPRONhandNOUN;PUNCTsoADVSaulPROPNfoundVERBreliefNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJitPRONwasAUXwellADJwithADPhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETevilADJspiritNOUNdepartedVERBfromADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_3 camecc
2ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 camensubj
3camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4totoPART_5 passmark
5passpassVERBVerbForm=Inf3 camexcomp
6,,PUNCT_15 Saulpunct
7whenwhenSCONJ_15 Saulmark
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 spiritdet
9evilevilADJDegree=Pos10 spiritamod
10spiritspiritNOUNNumber=Sing15 Saulnsubj
11fromfromADP_12 Godcase
12GodGodPROPNNumber=Sing10 spiritnmod
13wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 Saulcop
14uponuponADP_15 Saulcase
15SaulSaulPROPNNumber=Sing19 tookadvcl
16,,PUNCT_19 tookpunct
17thatthatSCONJ_19 tookmark
18DavidDavidPROPNNumber=Sing19 tooknsubj
19tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 cameccomp
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 harpdet
21harpharpNOUNNumber=Sing19 tookobj
22,,PUNCT_24 playedpunct
23andandCCONJ_24 playedcc
24playedplayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 tookconj
25withwithADP_27 handcase
26hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 handnmod:poss
27handhandNOUNNumber=Sing24 playedobl
28;;PUNCT_31 foundpunct
29sosoADV_31 foundadvmod
30SaulSaulPROPNNumber=Sing31 foundnsubj
31foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 tookconj
32reliefreliefNOUNNumber=Sing31 foundobj
33,,PUNCT_37 wellpunct
34andandCCONJ_39 himcc
35ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs37 wellnsubj
36wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin37 wellcop
37wellwellADJDegree=Pos31 foundconj
38withwithADP_39 himcase
39himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs37 wellobl
40,,PUNCT_45 departedpunct
41andandCCONJ_45 departedcc
42thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art44 spiritdet
43evilevilADJDegree=Pos44 spiritamod
44spiritspiritNOUNNumber=Sing45 departednsubj
45departeddepartVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin31 foundconj
46fromfromADP_47 himcase
47himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs45 departedobl
48..PUNCT_3 camepunct

Pragmatics

form
statement
act
narrate
voice
narrator
polarity
none
teacher
kept the draft
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepastfavourtree rules
2passto-infinitivefavour not said herevn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3ispastthe evil spirit from Godupon Saultree rules
4takepastDavidthe harpvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=Theme
5playpastDavid not said herewith David's handvn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hand=Theme
6findpastSaulreliefvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relief=Topic
7ispastfavourwith David; well propertytree rules
8departpastthe evil spiritfrom Davidvn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from he=Initial_Location

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

וְהָיָ֗ה בִּֽהְי֤וֹת רֽוּחַ־אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶל־שָׁא֔וּל וְלָקַ֥ח דָּוִ֛ד אֶת־הַכִּנּ֖וֹר וְנִגֵּ֣ן בְּיָד֑וֹ וְרָוַ֤ח לְשָׁאוּל֙ וְט֣וֹב ל֔וֹ וְסָ֥רָה מֵעָלָ֖יו ר֥וּחַ הָרָעָֽה׃פ

1 Samuel 16:23: 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:451 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.451/