1 Samuel 18:25 · JPS 1917

And Saul said: 'Thus shall ye say to David: The king desireth not any dowry, but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies.' For Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

Who acts: Saul, ye, king, David · What happens: say, not desire, avenge, think, make, fall · To what, where: David, dowry · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 18:25 · 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, ye, king, 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	_	3 said	cc
2	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
6	Thus	thus	ADV	_	9 say	advmod
7	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 say	aux
8	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 David	case
11	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 say	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 desireth	punct
13	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 desireth	nsubj
15	desireth	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 say	ccomp
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 desireth	advmod
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 dowry	det
18	dowry	dowry	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 desireth	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 foreskins	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 foreskins	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hundred	det
22	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 foreskins	nummod
23	foreskins	foreskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 dowry	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 Philistines	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Philistines	det
26	Philistines	philistine	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 foreskins	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 avenged	punct
28	to	to	PART	_	30 avenged	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 avenged	aux:pass
30	avenged	avenge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 foreskins	acl
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 enemies	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 king	det
33	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 enemies	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 king	case
35	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 avenged	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
38	For	for	SCONJ	_	40 thought	mark
39	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 thought	nsubj
40	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	advcl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 make	mark
42	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 thought	xcomp
43	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 make	obj
44	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 make	xcomp
45	by	by	ADP	_	47 hand	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 hand	det
47	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 fall	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 Philistines	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 Philistines	det
50	Philistines	philistine	PROPN	Number=Plur	47 hand	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: request
voice: character
polarity: neg
indirect: yes
teacher: changed form=decl, act=request, indirect=1

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Saul				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	shall	ye		David	thus property	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to david=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	not desire	present	the king	any dowry but hundred foreskins of the Philistines			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dowry=Theme
4	avenge	to-infinitive · passive	the king not said here			of the king's enemies	tree rules
5	think speech: other	past	Saul				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	make	to-infinitive	Saul not said here	David			tree rules
7	fall	infinitive	David not said here			by the hand of the Philistines	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by hand=Location

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 שָׁא֜וּל כֹּֽה־תֹאמְר֣וּ לְדָוִ֗ד אֵֽין־חֵ֤פֶץ לַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ בְּמֹ֔הַר כִּ֗י בְּמֵאָה֙ עָרְל֣וֹת פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים לְהִנָּקֵ֖ם בְּאֹיְבֵ֣י הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וְשָׁא֣וּל חָשַׁ֔ב לְהַפִּ֥יל אֶת־דָּוִ֖ד בְּיַד־פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים׃

1 Samuel 18:25: 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:540 of Mova's parse database.

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