1 Samuel 18:19 · JPS 1917

But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife.

Who acts: family · What happens: come, pass, give · To what, where: daughter, David, Merab, wife

This is 1 Samuel 18:19 · 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 (family), 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	But	but	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	at	at	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl:unmarked
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 given	advmod
10	Merab	Merab	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 daughter	nmod:poss
11	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 daughter	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Saul	case
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 given	nsubj:pass
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 given	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 given	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 given	aux:pass
17	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 time	acl:relcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 David	case
19	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 given	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 given	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 given	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 given	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 given	aux:pass
24	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 came	ccomp
25	unto	unto	ADP	_	26 Adriel	case
26	Adriel	Adriel	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 given	obl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Meholathite	det
28	Meholathite	Meholathite	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Adriel	appos
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 wife	case
30	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 given	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	family			time		tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	family not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give	should · perfect · passive		Merab's daughter	David			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to david=Recipient
4	give	past · passive		Merab	wife		unto Adriel	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to wife=Recipient

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

וַיְהִ֗י בְּעֵ֥ת תֵּ֛ת אֶת־מֵרַ֥ב בַּת־שָׁא֖וּל לְדָוִ֑ד וְהִ֧יא נִתְּנָ֛ה לְעַדְרִיאֵ֥ל הַמְּחֹלָתִ֖י לְאִשָּֽׁה׃

1 Samuel 18:19: 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:533 of Mova's parse database.

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