1 Samuel 17:34 · JPS 1917

And David said unto Saul: 'Thy servant kept his father's sheep; and when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock,

Who acts: David, servant, lion · What happens: say, keep, come, take · To what, where: sheep, lamb · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 17:34 · 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, servant, lion), 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	David	David	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 Saul	case
5	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 kept	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 kept	punct
8	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 servant	nmod:poss
9	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kept	nsubj
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
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=Sing	10 kept	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 came	mark
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 came	expl
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 lion	det
21	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bear	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 bear	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 bear	det
25	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lion	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 took	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 took	cc
28	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 lamb	det
30	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	obj
31	out	out	ADP	_	34 flock	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 flock	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 flock	det
34	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lamb	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kept	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	David				unto Saul	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	keep	past	Thy servant	David's father's sheep				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme
3	come	past	a lion or a bear			there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	past	a lion or a bear not said here		a lamb			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument lamb=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

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר דָּוִד֙ אֶל־שָׁא֔וּל רֹעֶ֨ה הָיָ֧ה עַבְדְּךָ֛ לְאָבִ֖יו בַּצֹּ֑אן וּבָ֤א הָֽאֲרִי֙ וְאֶת־הַדּ֔וֹב וְנָשָׂ֥א שֶׂ֖ה מֵהָעֵֽדֶר׃

1 Samuel 17:34: 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:487 of Mova's parse database.

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