1 Samuel 17:51 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith.
Who acts: David · What happens: run, stand, take, draw, slay, cut off · To what, where: Philistine, sword, sheath, David, head
This is 1 Samuel 17:51 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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), 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 ran | cc |
| 2 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stood | cc |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 Philistine | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Philistine | det |
| 9 | Philistine | Philistine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sword | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drew | cc |
| 17 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 drew | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 sheath | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sheath | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sheath | det |
| 22 | sheath | sheath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drew | obl |
| 23 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 22 sheath | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 slew | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 slew | cc |
| 26 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 slew | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 cut | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 cut | cc |
| 30 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 31 | off | off | ADP | _ | 30 cut | compound:prt |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 head | nmod:poss |
| 33 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cut | obj |
| 34 | therewith | therewith | ADV | _ | 30 cut | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | David | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | David not said here | the Philistine | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over philistine=Location | ||||
| 3 | take | past | David not said here | David's sword | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 4 | draw | past | David not said here | sword | the sheath | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme out sheath=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | slay | past | David not said here | David | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 6 | cut off | past | David not said here | David's head | therewith property | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
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
וַיָּ֣רָץ דָּ֠וִד וַיַּעֲמֹ֨ד אֶל־הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֜י וַיִּקַּ֣ח אֶת־חַ֠רְבּוֹ וַֽיִּשְׁלְפָ֤הּ מִתַּעְרָהּ֙ וַיְמֹ֣תְתֵ֔הוּ וַיִּכְרָת־בָּ֖הּ אֶת־רֹאשׁ֑וֹ וַיִּרְא֧וּ הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֛ים כִּֽי־מֵ֥ת גִּבּוֹרָ֖ם וַיָּנֻֽסוּ׃
1 Samuel 17:51: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith.
- And when the Philistines saw that their mighty man was dead, they fled.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1SA:505 of Mova's parse database.
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