1 Samuel 17:41 · JPS 1917
And the Philistine came nearer and nearer unto David; and the man that bore the shield went before him.
Who acts: Philistine, man · What happens: come, bear, go · To what, where: shield
This is 1 Samuel 17:41 · 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 (Philistine, man), 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 | _ | 4 came | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Philistine | det |
| 3 | Philistine | Philistine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 nearer | cc |
| 7 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 nearer | conj |
| 8 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 9 David | case |
| 9 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | nsubj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 bore | nsubj |
| 15 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 man | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shield | det |
| 17 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bore | obj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | 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 | come | past | the Philistine | unto David; near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bear | past | the man | the shield | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shield=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the man | before David | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before he=Location |
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
וַיֵּ֙לֶךְ֙ הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֔י הֹלֵ֥ךְ וְקָרֵ֖ב אֶל־דָּוִ֑ד וְהָאִ֛ישׁ נֹשֵׂ֥א הַצִּנָּ֖ה לְפָנָֽיו׃
1 Samuel 17:41: 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:495 of Mova's parse database.
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