1 Samuel 17:15 · JPS 1917

Now David went to and fro from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem. —

Who acts: David · What happens: go, feed · To what, where: Saul, sheep, Beth lehem

This is 1 Samuel 17:15 · 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fro	cc
6	fro	fro	ADV	_	4 to	conj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Saul	case
8	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 feed	mark
10	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sheep	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 father	case
14	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 feed	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 lehem	case
16	Beth	Beth	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 lehem	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 lehem	punct
18	lehem	lehem	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feed	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	David			Saul	now		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from saul=Initial_Location
2	feed	to-infinitive	David not said here		David's father's sheep	Beth lehem			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Recipient

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

וְדָוִ֛ד הֹלֵ֥ךְ וָשָׁ֖ב מֵעַ֣ל שָׁא֑וּל לִרְע֛וֹת אֶת־צֹ֥אן אָבִ֖יו בֵּֽית־לָֽחֶםבֵּֽית־לָֽחֶם׃

1 Samuel 17:15: 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:466 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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