1 Samuel 18:26 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law.
Who acts: servants · What happens: tell, please, be · To what, where: words, David, hand, son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 18:26 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (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 | _ | 11 pleased | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 told | mark |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 servants | nmod:poss |
| 4 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 pleased | advcl |
| 6 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 words | det |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 told | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pleased | expl |
| 11 | pleased | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 pleased | obj |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 pleased | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 son | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 son | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 king | case |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pleased | csubj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 law | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 law | case |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 in | punct |
| 23 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 son | compound |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- 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 | David's servants | this words | David | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent david=Recipient word=Topic | |||
| 2 | please | past | hand | well property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus david=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | the king's son | 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
וַיַּגִּ֨דוּ עֲבָדָ֤יו לְדָוִד֙ אֶת־הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֔לֶּה וַיִּשַׁ֤ר הַדָּבָר֙ בְּעֵינֵ֣י דָוִ֔ד לְהִתְחַתֵּ֖ן בַּמֶּ֑לֶךְ וְלֹ֥א מָלְא֖וּ הַיָּמִֽים׃
1 Samuel 18:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law.
- And the days were not expired;
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1SA:541 of Mova's parse database.
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