1 Samuel 18:11 · JPS 1917

And Saul cast the spear; for he said: 'I will smite David even to the wall.' And David stepped aside out of his presence twice.

Who acts: Saul, I, David · What happens: cast, say, smite, step · To what, where: spear, David, presence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 18:11 · 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, I, 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 cast	cc
2	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cast	nsubj
3	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spear	det
5	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cast	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 said	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cast	parataxis
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 smite	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 smite	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 smite	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 smite	aux
14	smite	smite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
15	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 smite	obj
16	even	even	ADV	_	19 wall	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 wall	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wall	det
19	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 smite	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 smite	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 smite	punct
22	And	and	CCONJ	_	24 stepped	cc
23	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 stepped	nsubj
24	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cast	conj
25	aside	aside	ADV	_	24 stepped	advmod
26	out	out	ADP	_	29 presence	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 presence	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 presence	nmod:poss
29	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stepped	obl
30	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 stepped	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cast	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cast	past	Saul	the spear			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Product
2	say speech: assert	past	Saul				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	smite	future	I	David		to the wall result	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent david=Patient to wall=Result
4	step	past	David		Saul's presence	aside, twice property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out presence=Trajectory

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

וַיָּ֤טֶל שָׁאוּל֙ אֶֽת־הַחֲנִ֔ית וַיֹּ֕אמֶר אַכֶּ֥ה בְדָוִ֖ד וּבַקִּ֑יר וַיִּסֹּ֥ב דָּוִ֛ד מִפָּנָ֖יו פַּעֲמָֽיִם׃

1 Samuel 18:11: 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:525 of Mova's parse database.

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