1 Samuel 17:31 · JPS 1917

And when the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he was taken to him.

Who acts: David, words · What happens: hear, speak, rehearse, take · To what, where: words, people, David, Israel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 17:31 · 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, words), 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 rehearsed	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 heard	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 words	det
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heard	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux:pass
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 rehearsed	advcl
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 spoke	obj
8	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 spoke	nsubj
9	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 words	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rehearsed	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rehearsed	nsubj
12	rehearsed	rehearse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rehearsed	obj
14	before	before	ADP	_	15 Saul	case
15	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 rehearsed	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 taken	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 taken	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 taken	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 taken	aux:pass
20	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 rehearsed	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 taken	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 rehearsed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	hear	past · passive		the words			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
2	speak speech: other	past	David	the words			tree rules
3	rehearse	past	words = word	people		before Saul	vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	take	past · passive		David	Israel		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=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

וַיְּשָּֽׁמְעוּ֙הַדְּבָרִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר דִּבֶּ֣ר דָּוִ֑ד וַיַּגִּ֥דוּ לִפְנֵֽי־שָׁא֖וּל וַיִּקָּחֵֽהוּ׃

1 Samuel 17:31: 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:484 of Mova's parse database.

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