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1 Samuel 17:55 · JPS 1917

And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host: 'Abner, whose son is this youth?' And Abner said: 'As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.'

Who acts: Saul, David, youth, Abner, soul, I · What happens: see, go, say, be, live, not tell · To what, where: David, Philistine, son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 17:55 · 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 (Saul, David, youth, Abner), 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

ccmarknsubjadvclobjxcompadvmodcasedetoblpunctnsubjcaseoblpunctdetapposcasedetnmodpunctpunctvocativepunctnmod:possccompcopdetnsubjpunctpunctccnsubjconjpunctpunctmarknmod:possnsubjadvclpunctdiscoursevocativepunctnsubjauxadvmodccomppunctpunctrootAndCCONJwhenSCONJSaulPROPNsawVERBDavidPROPNgoVERBforthADVagainstADPtheDETPhilistinePROPN,PUNCThePRONsaidVERBuntoADPAbnerPROPN,PUNCTtheDETcaptainNOUNofADPtheDEThostNOUN:PUNCT'PUNCTAbnerPROPN,PUNCTwhosePRONsonNOUNisAUXthisDETyouthNOUN?PUNCT'PUNCTAndCCONJAbnerPROPNsaidVERB:PUNCT'PUNCTAsSCONJthyPRONsoulNOUNlivethVERB,PUNCTOINTJkingNOUN,PUNCTIPRONcanAUXnotPARTtellVERB.PUNCT'PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_13 saidcc
2whenwhenSCONJ_4 sawmark
3SaulSaulPROPNNumber=Sing4 sawnsubj
4sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 saidadvcl
5DavidDavidPROPNNumber=Sing4 sawobj
6gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf4 sawxcomp
7forthforthADV_6 goadvmod
8againstagainstADP_10 Philistinecase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 Philistinedet
10PhilistinePhilistinePROPNNumber=Sing6 goobl
11,,PUNCT_4 sawpunct
12hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 saidnsubj
13saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
14untountoADP_15 Abnercase
15AbnerAbnerPROPNNumber=Sing13 saidobl
16,,PUNCT_18 captainpunct
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 captaindet
18captaincaptainNOUNNumber=Sing15 Abnerappos
19ofofADP_21 hostcase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 hostdet
21hosthostNOUNNumber=Sing18 captainnmod
22::PUNCT_27 sonpunct
23''PUNCT_27 sonpunct
24AbnerAbnerPROPNNumber=Sing27 sonvocative
25,,PUNCT_27 sonpunct
26whosewhosePRONPoss=Yes PronType=Int27 sonnmod:poss
27sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing13 saidccomp
28isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin27 soncop
29thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem30 youthdet
30youthyouthNOUNNumber=Sing27 sonnsubj
31??PUNCT_27 sonpunct
32''PUNCT_27 sonpunct
33AndandCCONJ_35 saidcc
34AbnerAbnerPROPNNumber=Sing35 saidnsubj
35saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 saidconj
36::PUNCT_49 tellpunct
37''PUNCT_49 tellpunct
38AsasSCONJ_41 livethmark
39thythyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch40 soulnmod:poss
40soulsoulNOUNNumber=Sing41 livethnsubj
41livethliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin49 telladvcl
42,,PUNCT_44 kingpunct
43OoINTJ_44 kingdiscourse
44kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing49 tellvocative
45,,PUNCT_44 kingpunct
46IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs49 tellnsubj
47cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin49 tellaux
48notnotPARTPolarity=Neg49 telladvmod
49telltellVERBVerbForm=Inf35 saidccomp
50..PUNCT_49 tellpunct
51''PUNCT_49 tellpunct

Pragmatics

form
statement
act
narrate
voice
narrator
polarity
none
teacher
changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastSaulDavidtree rules
2goinfinitiveDavid not said herethe Philistineforth propertyvn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against philistine=Location
3say speech: assertpastDavidunto Abnervn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4is apresentthis youthsonAbner vocativetree rules
5say speech: assertpastAbnervn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6livepresentthy soulvn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7not tell speech: assertcanIking vocativevn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

וְכִרְא֨וֹת שָׁא֜וּל אֶת־דָּוִ֗ד יֹצֵא֙ לִקְרַ֣את הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֔י אָמַ֗ר אֶל־אַבְנֵר֙ שַׂ֣ר הַצָּבָ֔א בֶּן־מִי־זֶ֥ה הַנַּ֖עַר אַבְנֵ֑ר וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אַבְנֵ֔ר חֵֽי־נַפְשְׁךָ֥ הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ אִם־יָדָֽעְתִּי׃

1 Samuel 17:55: 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:511 of Mova's parse database.

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