1 Samuel 17:7 · JPS 1917

And the shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron; and his shield-bearer went before him.

Who acts: shaft, head, shield bearer · What happens: be, weigh, go · To what, where: beam, hundred shekels

This is 1 Samuel 17:7 · 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 (shaft, head, shield bearer), 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	_	12 beam	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shaft	det
3	shaft	shaft	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beam	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 spear	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 spear	nmod:poss
6	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shaft	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 beam	cop
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 weaver	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 weaver	det
10	weaver	weaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beam	nmod
11	's	's	PART	_	10 weaver	case
12	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 weighed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 weighed	cc
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 spear	nmod:poss
16	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 head	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 spear	case
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 weighed	nsubj
19	weighed	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 beam	conj
20	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 hundred	compound
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 shekels	nummod
22	shekels	shekel	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 weighed	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 iron	case
24	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shekels	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 went	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 went	cc
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 bearer	nmod:poss
28	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bearer	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 bearer	punct
30	bearer	bearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 went	nsubj
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 beam	conj
32	before	before	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 went	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 beam	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the shaft of champion's spear	beam		like a weaver	tree rules
2	weigh	past	champion's spear's head	hundred shekels of iron			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme shekel=Value
3	go	past	champion's shield bearer		before champion		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before he=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

וְעֵ֣ץ חֲנִית֗וֹ כִּמְנוֹר֙ אֹֽרְגִ֔ים וְלַהֶ֣בֶת חֲנִית֔וֹ שֵׁשׁ־מֵא֥וֹת שְׁקָלִ֖ים בַּרְזֶ֑ל וְנֹשֵׂ֥א הַצִּנָּ֖ה הֹלֵ֥ךְ לְפָנָֽיו׃

1 Samuel 17:7: 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:458 of Mova's parse database.

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