1 Samuel 17:14 · JPS 1917
And David was the youngest; and the three eldest followed Saul. —
Who acts: David, three eldest · What happens: be, follow · To what, where: Saul
This is 1 Samuel 17:14 · 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, three eldest), 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 | _ | 5 youngest | cc |
| 2 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 youngest | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 youngest | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 youngest | det |
| 5 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 followed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 followed | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eldest | det |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 eldest | nummod |
| 10 | eldest | eldest | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 followed | nsubj |
| 11 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 youngest | conj |
| 12 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 followed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 youngest | punct |
| 14 | — | — | PUNCT | _ | 5 youngest | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
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- act
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | David | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | the three eldest | Saul | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saul=Theme |
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
וְדָוִ֖ד ה֣וּא הַקָּטָ֑ן וּשְׁלֹשָׁה֙ הַגְּדֹלִ֔ים הָלְכ֖וּ אַחֲרֵ֥י שָׁאֽוּל׃ס
1 Samuel 17:14: 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:465 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.
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