1 Samuel 17:50 · JPS 1917

So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.

Who acts: David, sword · What happens: prevail, smote, slay, be · To what, where: Philistine, David, hand

This is 1 Samuel 17:50 · 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, sword), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 prevailed	advmod
2	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 prevailed	nsubj
3	prevailed	prevail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 Philistine	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Philistine	det
6	Philistine	Philistine	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 prevailed	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 sling	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sling	det
9	sling	sling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prevailed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stone	cc
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 stone	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stone	det
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sling	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 smote	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 smote	cc
16	smote	smote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 prevailed	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Philistine	det
18	Philistine	Philistine	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 smote	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 slew	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 slew	cc
21	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 prevailed	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 slew	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 was	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 was	cc
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 was	expl
26	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 prevailed	conj
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 sword	det
28	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 was	nsubj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 hand	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hand	det
31	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 was	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 David	case
33	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 hand	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 prevailed	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prevail	past	David		the Philistine	with a sling and a stone	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over philistine=Location
2	smote	past	David not said here	the Philistine			tree rules
3	slay	past	David not said here	David			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	be	past	no sword		the hand of David; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=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

וַיֶּחֱזַ֨ק דָּוִ֤ד מִן־הַפְּלִשְׁתִּי֙ בַּקֶּ֣לַע וּבָאֶ֔בֶן וַיַּ֥ךְ אֶת־הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֖י וַיְמִיתֵ֑הוּ וְחֶ֖רֶב אֵ֥ין בְּיַד־דָּוִֽד׃

1 Samuel 17:50: 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:504 of Mova's parse database.

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