1 Samuel 18:18 · JPS 1917

And David said unto Saul: 'Who am I, and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?'

Who acts: David, I · What happens: say, be · To what, where: life, son, law · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 18:18 · 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, I), 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	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unto	unto	ADP	_	5 Saul	case
5	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Who	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 Who	punct
8	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	16 life	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Who	cop
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 Who	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 life	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 life	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 life	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 life	cop
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 life	nmod:poss
16	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 family	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 family	cc
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 family	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 father	case
22	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 life	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 Israel	case
24	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 family	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 son	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 son	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 son	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 son	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 son	cop
30	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 family	acl:relcl
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 law	punct
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 law	case
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 in	punct
34	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 son	nmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 king	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 king	det
37	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 son	nmod
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
39	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	David			unto Saul	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	I				tree rules
3	is a	present		my life or my father's family in Israel			tree rules
4	is a	should	I	son	law	to the king	tree rules

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 דָּוִ֜ד אֶל־שָׁא֗וּל מִ֤י אָֽנֹכִי֙ וּמִ֣י חַיַּ֔י מִשְׁפַּ֥חַת אָבִ֖י בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל כִּֽי־אֶהְיֶ֥ה חָתָ֖ן לַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

1 Samuel 18:18: 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:532 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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