1 Samuel 18:17 · JPS 1917

And Saul said to David: 'Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife; only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles.' For Saul said: 'Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.'

Who acts: Saul, I, thou, hand, LORD · What happens: say, behold, give, be, fight, not let · To what, where: David, elder daughter, Merab, thee, battles, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 18:17 · 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, thou, hand), 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 said	cc
2	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 David	case
5	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Behold	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 Behold	punct
8	Behold	behold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 daughter	nmod:poss
10	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 daughter	amod
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Behold	obj
12	Merab	Merab	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 daughter	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 give	obj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 give	aux
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 give	nsubj
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 Behold	parataxis
18	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 give	iobj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 wife	case
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 valiant	punct
22	only	only	ADV	_	25 valiant	advmod
23	be	be	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 valiant	cop
24	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 valiant	nsubj
25	valiant	valiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Behold	parataxis
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 valiant	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fight	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fight	cc
30	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 valiant	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 LORD	det
32	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 battles	nmod:poss
33	'S	's	PART	_	32 LORD	case
34	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fight	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 Behold	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 Behold	punct
37	For	for	SCONJ	_	39 said	mark
38	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 said	nsubj
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	advcl
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	42 Let	punct
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	42 Let	punct
42	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	39 said	ccomp
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 Let	advmod
44	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 hand	nmod:poss
45	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 Let	obj
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 him	cop
47	upon	upon	ADP	_	48 him	case
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 Let	xcomp
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 let	punct
50	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 let	cc
51	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	42 Let	conj
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 hand	det
53	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 let	obj
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 Philistines	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 Philistines	det
56	Philistines	Philistine	PROPN	Number=Plur	53 hand	nmod
57	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	59 him	cop
58	upon	upon	ADP	_	59 him	case
59	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 let	xcomp
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	42 Let	punct
61	'	'	PUNCT	_	42 Let	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Saul		David		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to david=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	behold	infinitive		my elder daughter			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus
3	give	future	I	Merab	thee	to wife	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient she=Theme
4	is	infinitive	thou			for me; valiant property	tree rules
5	fight	infinitive	thou not said here	the LORD's battles			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Co-Agent
6	say speech: assert	past	Saul				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	not let	infinitive		my hand			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
8	is	infinitive	my hand not said here			upon David	tree rules
9	let	infinitive		the hand of the Philistines			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
10	is	infinitive	the hand of the Philistines not said here			upon David	tree rules
11	battle		the LORD				nom battle «act transitive»: poss=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

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר שָׁא֜וּל אֶל־דָּוִ֗ד הִנֵּה֩ בִתִּ֨י הַגְּדוֹלָ֤ה מֵרַב֙ אֹתָהּ֙ אֶתֶּן־לְךָ֣ לְאִשָּׁ֔ה אַ֚ךְ הֱיֵה־לִּ֣י לְבֶן־חַ֔יִל וְהִלָּחֵ֖ם מִלְחֲמ֣וֹת יְהוָ֑ה וְשָׁא֣וּל אָמַ֗ר אַל־תְּהִ֤י יָדִי֙ בּ֔וֹ וּתְהִי־ב֖וֹ יַד־פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים׃ס

1 Samuel 18:17: 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:531 of Mova's parse database.

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