1 Samuel 17:17 · JPS 1917
And Jesse said unto David his son: 'Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to thy brethren.
Who acts: Jesse · What happens: say, take, parch, carry · To what, where: ephah, camp · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 17:17 · 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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | Jesse | Jesse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 David | case |
| 5 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 David | appos |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Take | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Take | punct |
| 10 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | _ | 10 Take | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 brethren | case |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 brethren | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Take | obl |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 ephah | det |
| 16 | ephah | ephah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Take | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 corn | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 corn | det |
| 19 | parched | parch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 corn | amod |
| 20 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ephah | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 loaves | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 loaves | cc |
| 23 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 loaves | det |
| 24 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 loaves | nummod |
| 25 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ephah | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 carry | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 carry | cc |
| 28 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Take | conj |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 carry | obj |
| 30 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 28 carry | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 camp | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 camp | det |
| 33 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 carry | obl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 brethren | case |
| 35 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 brethren | nmod:poss |
| 36 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 carry | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Jesse | unto David | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | a ephah of this parched corn and this ten loaves | now | for thy brethren | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent ephah=Theme for brethren=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | parch | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | carry | infinitive | ephah | the camp | to thy brethren; quickly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to camp=Destination |
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
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יִשַׁ֜י לְדָוִ֣ד בְּנ֗וֹ קַח־נָ֤א לְאַחֶ֙יךָ֙ אֵיפַ֤ת הַקָּלִיא֙ הַזֶּ֔ה וַעֲשָׂרָ֥ה לֶ֖חֶם הַזֶּ֑ה וְהָרֵ֥ץ הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֖ה לְאַחֶֽיךָ׃
1 Samuel 17:17: 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:468 of Mova's parse database.
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