1 Samuel 17:43 · JPS 1917

And the Philistine said unto David: 'Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves?' And the Philistine cursed David by his god.

Who acts: Philistine, I, thou · What happens: say, be, come, curse · To what, where: dog, me, David · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 17:43 · 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, I, thou), 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 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Philistine	det
3	Philistine	Philistine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	unto	unto	ADP	_	6 David	case
6	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 dog	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 dog	punct
9	Am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dog	cop
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 dog	nsubj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dog	det
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 comest	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 comest	mark
15	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 comest	nsubj
16	comest	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dog	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 comest	obl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 staves	case
20	staves	stave	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 comest	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 dog	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 dog	punct
23	And	and	CCONJ	_	26 cursed	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Philistine	det
25	Philistine	philistine	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cursed	nsubj
26	cursed	curse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
27	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 cursed	obj
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 god	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 god	nmod:poss
30	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cursed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed indirect=0

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Philistine			unto David	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	I	a dog			tree rules
3	come	present	thou		me	with staves	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
4	curse	past	the Philistine	David		by David's god	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent david=Theme

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 הַפְּלִשְׁתִּי֙ אֶל־דָּוִ֔ד הֲכֶ֣לֶב אָנֹ֔כִי כִּֽי־אַתָּ֥ה בָֽא־אֵלַ֖י בַּמַּקְל֑וֹת וַיְקַלֵּ֧ל הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֛י אֶת־דָּוִ֖ד בֵּאלֹהָֽיו׃

1 Samuel 17:43: 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:497 of Mova's parse database.

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