1 Samuel 19:8 · JPS 1917
And there was war again; and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.
Who acts: war, David, Jonathan · What happens: be, go out, fight, slay, flee · To what, where: Jonathan
This is 1 Samuel 19:8 · 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 (war, David, Jonathan), 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 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 was | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 8 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 was | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fought | cc |
| 13 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 Philistines | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Philistines | det |
| 16 | Philistines | Philistines | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 fought | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 slew | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 slew | cc |
| 19 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 slew | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 slaughter | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 slaughter | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 slaughter | amod |
| 24 | slaughter | slaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 slew | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 fled | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fled | cc |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 fled | nsubj |
| 28 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 was | conj |
| 29 | before | before | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 fled | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | war | there | again | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | go out | past | David | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fight | past | David not said here | with the Philistines | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with philistines=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | slay | past | David not said here | Jonathan | with a great slaughter | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with slaughter=Instrument | |||
| 5 | flee | past | Jonathan | before David | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
וַתּ֥וֹסֶף הַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה לִֽהְי֑וֹת וַיֵּצֵ֨א דָוִ֜ד וַיִּלָּ֣חֶם בַּפְּלִשְׁתִּ֗ים וַיַּ֤ךְ בָּהֶם֙ מַכָּ֣ה גְדוֹלָ֔ה וַיָּנֻ֖סוּ מִפָּנָֽיו׃
1 Samuel 19:8: 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:556 of Mova's parse database.
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