1 Samuel 18:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
And David said: 'Seemeth it to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?'
Who acts: David, I · What happens: say, seem, be, esteem · To what, where: delight, you, son, law, poor man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 18:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Seemeth | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Seemeth | punct |
| 6 | Seemeth | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Seemeth | expl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 Seemeth | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thing | det |
| 11 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thing | amod |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Seemeth | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 son | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 son | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 king | case |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thing | csubj |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 law | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 law | case |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 in | punct |
| 22 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 son | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 seeing | punct |
| 24 | seeing | seeing | SCONJ | _ | 30 man | mark |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 man | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 man | nsubj |
| 27 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 man | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 man | det |
| 29 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 man | amod |
| 30 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Seemeth | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 esteemed | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 esteemed | cc |
| 33 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 34 esteemed | advmod |
| 34 | esteemed | esteem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 man | conj |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed indirect=0, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | David | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | seem | present | delight | you | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | the king's son | law | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | I | a poor man | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | esteem | participle | I not said here | lightly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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
וַֽיְדַבְּר֞וּ עַבְדֵ֤י שָׁאוּל֙ בְּאָזְנֵ֣י דָוִ֔ד אֶת־הַדְּבָרִ֖ים הָאֵ֑לֶּה וַיֹּ֣אמֶר דָּוִ֗ד הַֽנְקַלָּ֤ה בְעֵֽינֵיכֶם֙ הִתְחַתֵּ֣ן בַּמֶּ֔לֶךְ וְאָנֹכִ֖י אִֽישׁ־רָ֥שׁ וְנִקְלֶֽה׃
1 Samuel 18:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David.
- And David said: 'Seemeth it to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1SA:538 of Mova's parse database.
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