1 Samuel 18:24 · JPS 1917
And the servants of Saul told him, saying: 'On this manner spoke David.'
Who acts: servants, David · What happens: tell, say, speak · To what, where: Saul, manner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 18:24 · 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 (servants, David), 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 | _ | 6 told | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 servants | det |
| 3 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 told | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Saul | case |
| 5 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 servants | nmod |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 told | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 told | advcl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 spoke | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 spoke | punct |
| 12 | On | on | ADP | _ | 14 manner | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 manner | det |
| 14 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spoke | obl |
| 15 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saying | ccomp |
| 16 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 spoke | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 spoke | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the servants of Saul | Saul | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the servants of Saul not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | David | this manner | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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
וַיַּגִּ֜דוּ עַבְדֵ֥י שָׁא֛וּל ל֖וֹ לֵאמֹ֑ר כַּדְּבָרִ֥ים הָאֵ֖לֶּה דִּבֶּ֥ר דָּוִֽד׃פ
1 Samuel 18:24: 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:539 of Mova's parse database.
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