1 Samuel 18:22 · JPS 1917
And Saul commanded his servants: 'Speak with David secretly, and say: Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee; now therefore be the king's son-in-law.'
Who acts: Saul, king, servants · What happens: command, speak, say, have, love, be · To what, where: servants, delight, thee, son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 18:22 · 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, king, servants), 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 commanded | cc |
| 2 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 commanded | nsubj |
| 3 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 servants | nmod:poss |
| 5 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 commanded | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Speak | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Speak | punct |
| 8 | Speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 commanded | ccomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 David | case |
| 10 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Speak | obl |
| 11 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 8 Speak | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 say | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 say | cc |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 Speak | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 hath | punct |
| 16 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 20 hath | discourse |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hath | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hath | nsubj |
| 20 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 say | ccomp |
| 21 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hath | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 thee | case |
| 23 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 delight | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 love | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 love | cc |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 servants | det:predet |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 servants | nmod:poss |
| 28 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 love | nsubj |
| 29 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 hath | conj |
| 30 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 love | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 son | punct |
| 32 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 son | advmod |
| 33 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 38 son | advmod |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 son | cop |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 king | det |
| 36 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 son | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 king | case |
| 38 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 say | conj |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 son | punct |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 law | case |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 in | punct |
| 42 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 son | compound |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commanded | punct |
| 44 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | Saul | Saul's servants | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | infinitive | Saul not said here | with David; secretly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with david=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | Saul not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have | present | the king | delight | thee | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delight=Patient | |||
| 5 | love | present | Saul's servants | thee | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is a | infinitive | Saul not said here | the king's son | now | therefore property | 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
וַיְצַ֨ו שָׁא֜וּל אֶת־עֲבָדָ֗ודַּבְּר֨וּ אֶל־דָּוִ֤ד בַּלָּט֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר הִנֵּ֨ה חָפֵ֤ץ בְּךָ֙ הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וְכָל־עֲבָדָ֖יו אֲהֵב֑וּךָ וְעַתָּ֖ה הִתְחַתֵּ֥ן בַּמֶּֽלֶךְ׃
1 Samuel 18:22: 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:536 of Mova's parse database.
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