1 Samuel 18:6 · JPS 1917

And it came to pass as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with timbrels, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments.

Who acts: success, men, David, women · What happens: come, pass, return, come out, sing, dancing · To what, where: slaughter, cities, king, Philistine

This is 1 Samuel 18:6 · 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 (success, men, David, women), 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 came	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 returned	punct
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 returned	mark
11	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 returned	nsubj
12	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	advcl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 slaughter	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 slaughter	det
15	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 returned	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Philistine	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Philistine	det
18	Philistine	Philistine	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 slaughter	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 came	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 women	det
22	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	ccomp
24	out	out	ADP	_	28 cities	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 cities	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 cities	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cities	det
28	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 came	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Israel	case
30	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 cities	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 singing	punct
32	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 came	advcl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 dancing	cc
34	dancing	dancing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 singing	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 meet	punct
36	to	to	PART	_	37 meet	mark
37	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 came	advcl
38	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 meet	obj
39	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 king	flat
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 timbrels	punct
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 timbrels	case
42	timbrels	timbrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 meet	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 joy	punct
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 joy	case
45	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 meet	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 instruments	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 instruments	cc
48	with	with	ADP	_	52 instruments	case
49	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 stringed	nummod
50	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 three	punct
51	stringed	stringed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 instruments	amod
52	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 timbrels	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	success				tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	success not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	men = man				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	return	past	David		the slaughter of the Philistine		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from slaughter=Initial_Location
5	come out	past	the women	all cities of Israel			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient city=Result
6	sing speech: express	gerund	the women not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	dancing	gerund	the women not said here				tree rules
8	meet	to-infinitive	the women not said here	king		with timbrels and stringed instruments; with joy	vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent king=Theme with timbrel=Instrument
9	stringed	participle					tree rules
10	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

וַיְהִ֣י בְּבוֹאָ֗ם בְּשׁ֤וּב דָּוִד֙ מֵהַכּ֣וֹת אֶת־הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֔י וַתֵּצֶ֨אנָה הַנָּשִׁ֜ים מִכָּל־עָרֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לָשִׁ֣יר וְהַמְּחֹל֔וֹת לִקְרַ֖את שָׁא֣וּל הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ בְּתֻפִּ֥ים בְּשִׂמְחָ֖ה וּבְשָׁלִשִֽׁים׃

1 Samuel 18:6: 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:520 of Mova's parse database.

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