1 Samuel 17:49 · JPS 1917

And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slung it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead; and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell upon his face to the earth.

Who acts: David, stone · What happens: put, take, sling, smote, sink, fall · To what, where: hand, bag, stone, Philistine, forehead, face

This is 1 Samuel 17:49 · 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, stone), 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 put	cc
2	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	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 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 bag	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bag	nmod:poss
8	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 took	cc
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
12	thence	thence	ADV	_	11 took	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stone	det
14	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 slung	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 slung	cc
17	slung	sling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 slung	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 smote	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 smote	cc
21	smote	smote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Philistine	det
23	Philistine	Philistine	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 smote	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 forehead	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 forehead	nmod:poss
26	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 smote	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 sank	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sank	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 stone	det
30	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sank	nsubj
31	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 forehead	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 forehead	nmod:poss
34	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sank	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 fell	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 fell	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 fell	nsubj
38	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
39	upon	upon	ADP	_	41 face	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 face	nmod:poss
41	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fell	obl
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 earth	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 earth	det
44	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fell	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	David	David's hand	David's bag		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in bag=Destination
2	take	past	David not said here	a stone		thence property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
3	sling	past	David not said here	hand			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	smote	past	David not said here	the Philistine	David's forehead		tree rules
5	sink	past	the stone		David's forehead		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	fall	past	David		David's face	to the earth	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon face=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

וַיִּשְׁלַח֩ דָּוִ֨ד אֶת־יָד֜וֹ אֶל־הַכֶּ֗לִי וַיִּקַּ֨ח מִשָּׁ֥ם אֶ֙בֶן֙ וַיְקַלַּ֔ע וַיַּ֥ךְ אֶת־הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֖י אֶל־מִצְח֑וֹ וַתִּטְבַּ֤ע הָאֶ֙בֶן֙ בְּמִצְח֔וֹ וַיִּפֹּ֥ל עַל־פָּנָ֖יו אָֽרְצָה׃

1 Samuel 17:49: 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:503 of Mova's parse database.

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