1 Samuel 17:12 · JPS 1917

Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem in Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons; and the man was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken in years among men.

Who acts: David, name, man, Jesse · What happens: be, have, stricken, name · To what, where: son, Jesse, eight sons, old man

This is 1 Samuel 17:12 · 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, name, man, Jesse), 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	Now	now	ADV	_	5 son	advmod
2	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 son	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 son	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 son	det
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Ephrathite	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 Ephrathite	det
8	Ephrathite	Ephrathite	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 son	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 lehem	case
10	Beth	Beth	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 lehem	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 lehem	punct
12	lehem	lehem	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Ephrathite	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Judah	case
14	Judah	Judah	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 lehem	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Jesse	punct
16	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	17 name	nmod:poss
17	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Jesse	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 Jesse	cop
19	Jesse	Jesse	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Ephrathite	acl:relcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 had	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 son	conj
24	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 sons	nummod
25	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 had	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 man	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 man	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 man	det
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 man	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 man	cop
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 man	det
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 man	amod
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 son	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 days	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 days	det
36	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 man	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 Saul	case
38	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 days	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 stricken	punct
40	stricken	stricken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 man	acl
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 years	case
42	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 stricken	obl
43	among	among	ADP	_	44 men	case
44	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 stricken	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 son	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	David	the son and a old man	now	of that Ephrathite of Beth lehem in Judah	tree rules
2	is a	past	Jesse's name	Jesse			tree rules
3	have	past	David	eight sons			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
4	is a	past	the man	a old man	day		tree rules
5	stricken	participle		a old man not said here	year	among men	tree rules
6	name		Jesse				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

וְדָוִד֩ בֶּן־אִ֨ישׁ אֶפְרָתִ֜י הַזֶּ֗ה מִבֵּ֥ית לֶ֙חֶם֙ בֵּ֥ית לֶ֙חֶם֙ יְהוּדָ֔ה וּשְׁמ֣וֹ יִשַׁ֔י וְל֖וֹ שְׁמֹנָ֣ה בָנִ֑ים וְהָאִישׁ֙ בִּימֵ֣י שָׁא֔וּל זָקֵ֖ן בָּ֥א בַאֲנָשִֽׁים׃

1 Samuel 17:12: 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:463 of Mova's parse database.

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