1 Samuel 18:5 · JPS 1917
And David went out; whithersoever Saul sent him, he had good success; and Saul set him over the men of war; and it was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.
Who acts: David, Saul, success · What happens: go out, send, have, set, be, sight · To what, where: David, good success, sight, people, servants
This is 1 Samuel 18:5 · 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, Saul, success), 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 went | cc |
| 2 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 6 | whithersoever | whithersoever | ADV | _ | 8 sent | advmod |
| 7 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | nsubj |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sent | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 success | amod |
| 14 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 set | cc |
| 17 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 set | nsubj |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 set | obj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 men | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 men | det |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 set | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 war | case |
| 24 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 men | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 good | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 good | cc |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 good | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 good | cop |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 sight | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 sight | det |
| 32 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 good | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 people | case |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 people | det:predet |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 people | det |
| 36 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 sight | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 sight | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 sight | cc |
| 39 | also | also | ADV | _ | 42 sight | advmod |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 sight | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 sight | det |
| 42 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 good | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 servants | case |
| 44 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 servants | nmod:poss |
| 45 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 44 Saul | case |
| 46 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 sight | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | David | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | send | past | Saul | David | whithersoever property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | David | good success | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent success=Patient | ||||
| 4 | set | past | Saul | David | over the men of war | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme over man=Destination | |||
| 5 | is | past | success | the sight of all people | in the sight of Saul's servants; good property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | sight | all people | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | sight | Saul's servants | nom sight «cognition 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
וַיֵּצֵ֨א דָוִ֜ד בְּכֹל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִשְׁלָחֶ֤נּוּ שָׁאוּל֙ יַשְׂכִּ֔יל וַיְשִׂמֵ֣הוּ שָׁא֔וּל עַ֖ל אַנְשֵׁ֣י הַמִּלְחָמָ֑ה וַיִּיטַב֙ בְּעֵינֵ֣י כָל־הָעָ֔ם וְגַ֕ם בְּעֵינֵ֖י עַבְדֵ֥י שָׁאֽוּל׃פ
1 Samuel 18:5: 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:519 of Mova's parse database.
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