1 Samuel 17:40 · JPS 1917

And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag which he had, even in his scrip; and his sling was in his hand; and he drew near to the Philistine.

Who acts: David, sling · What happens: take, choose, put, be, draw · To what, where: staff, hand, five smooth stones, David, brook, stones

This is 1 Samuel 17:40 · 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, sling), 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 took	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 staff	nmod:poss
5	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hand	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hand	nmod:poss
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 chose	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 chose	cc
11	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 chose	iobj
13	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 stones	nummod
14	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stones	amod
15	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 chose	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 brook	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 brook	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 brook	det
19	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chose	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 put	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 put	cc
22	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 put	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	28 bag	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 shepherd	det
26	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bag	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 shepherd	case
28	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obl
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 had	obj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 bag	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 scrip	punct
33	even	even	ADV	_	36 scrip	advmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 scrip	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 scrip	nmod:poss
36	scrip	scrip	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bag	nmod
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 hand	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 hand	cc
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 sling	nmod:poss
40	sling	sling	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 hand	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 hand	cop
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 hand	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 hand	nmod:poss
44	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	conj
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 drew	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 drew	cc
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 drew	nsubj
48	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
49	near	near	ADV	_	48 drew	advmod
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 Philistine	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 Philistine	det
52	Philistine	Philistine	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 drew	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	David	David's staff		David's hand		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent staff=Value in hand=Location
2	choose	past	David not said here	five smooth stones	David	the brook		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary stone=Theme
3	put	past	David not said here	stones = stone		the shepherd's bag in David's scrip		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in bag=Destination
4	is	past	David's sling			David's hand		tree rules
5	draw	past	David		the Philistine		near property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to philistine=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

וַיִּקַּ֨ח מַקְל֜וֹ בְּיָד֗וֹ וַיִּבְחַר־ל֣וֹ חֲמִשָּׁ֣ה חַלֻּקֵֽי־אֲבָנִ֣ים ׀ מִן־הַנַּ֡חַל וַיָּ֣שֶׂם אֹ֠תָם בִּכְלִ֨י הָרֹעִ֧ים אֲשֶׁר־ל֛וֹ וּבַיַּלְק֖וּט וְקַלְּע֣וֹ בְיָד֑וֹ וַיִּגַּ֖שׁ אֶל־הַפְּלִשְׁתִּֽי׃

1 Samuel 17:40: 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:494 of Mova's parse database.

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