1 Samuel 17:57 · JPS 1917
And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
Who acts: David, Abner · What happens: return, take, bring, slaughter · To what, where: slaughter, David, Philistine
This is 1 Samuel 17:57 · 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, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 returned | mark |
| 3 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | advcl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 slaughter | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 slaughter | det |
| 7 | slaughter | slaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Philistine | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Philistine | det |
| 10 | Philistine | Philistine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 slaughter | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
| 12 | Abner | Abner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 brought | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 brought | cc |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | obj |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 Saul | case |
| 20 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 head | det |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Philistine | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Philistine | det |
| 26 | Philistine | Philistine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 head | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 hand | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hand | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 head | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | David | the slaughter of the Philistine | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from slaughter=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Abner | David | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | Abner not said here | David | before Saul | with the head of the Philistine in David's hand | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme before saul=Destination | ||
| 4 | slaughter | the Philistine | nom slaughter «act transitive»: of=patient |
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
וּכְשׁ֣וּב דָּוִ֗ד מֵֽהַכּוֹת֙ אֶת־הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֔י וַיִּקַּ֤ח אֹתוֹ֙ אַבְנֵ֔ר וַיְבִאֵ֖הוּ לִפְנֵ֣י שָׁא֑וּל וְרֹ֥אשׁ הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֖י בְּיָדֽוֹ׃
1 Samuel 17:57: 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:513 of Mova's parse database.
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