1 Samuel 19:9 · JPS 1917

And an evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing with his hand.

Who acts: evil spirit, David · What happens: be, sit, play · To what, where: house

This is 1 Samuel 19:9 · 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 (evil spirit, 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	_	10 Saul	cc
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spirit	det
3	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spirit	amod
4	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Saul	nsubj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 LORD	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 LORD	det
7	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spirit	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Saul	cop
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 Saul	case
10	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 sat	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Saul	advcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 house	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 house	nmod:poss
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 spear	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 spear	nmod:poss
20	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 hand	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hand	nmod:poss
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spear	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 playing	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 playing	cc
26	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 playing	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 playing	aux
28	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 Saul	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 hand	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hand	nmod:poss
31	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 playing	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 Saul	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	a evil spirit from the LORD		upon Saul	tree rules
2	sit	past	David	David's house	with David's spear in David's hand	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location
3	play	past · progressive	David		with David's hand	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hand=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

וַתְּהִי֩ ר֨וּחַ יְהוָ֤ה ׀ רָעָה֙ אֶל־שָׁא֔וּל וְהוּא֙ בְּבֵית֣וֹ יוֹשֵׁ֔ב וַחֲנִית֖וֹ בְּיָד֑וֹ וְדָוִ֖ד מְנַגֵּ֥ן בְּיָֽד׃

1 Samuel 19:9: 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:557 of Mova's parse database.

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