1 Samuel 19:10 · JPS 1917

And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the spear into the wall; and David fled, and escaped that night.

Who acts: Saul, David · What happens: seek, smite, slip away, flee, escape · To what, where: David, presence, spear, wall

This is 1 Samuel 19:10 · 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, 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 sought	cc
2	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sought	nsubj
3	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 smite	mark
5	smite	smite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sought	xcomp
6	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 smite	obj
7	even	even	ADV	_	10 wall	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 wall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wall	det
10	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smite	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 spear	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 spear	det
13	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smite	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 slipped	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 slipped	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 slipped	nsubj
17	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sought	conj
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 slipped	advmod
19	out	out	ADP	_	23 presence	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 presence	case
21	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 presence	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 Saul	case
23	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 slipped	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 smote	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 smote	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 smote	nsubj
27	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 slipped	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 spear	det
29	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 smote	obj
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 wall	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wall	det
32	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 smote	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 fled	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 fled	cc
35	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 fled	nsubj
36	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sought	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 escaped	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 escaped	cc
39	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 fled	conj
40	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 night	det
41	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 escaped	obl:unmarked
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sought	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	past	Saul					tree rules
2	smite not said to happen	to-infinitive	Saul not said here	David			to the wall result; with the spear	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent david=Patient to wall=Result with spear=Instrument
3	slip away	past	David		Saul's presence		away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	smite	past	David	the spear			into the wall result	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent spear=Patient into wall=Result
5	flee	past	David					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	escape	past	David not said here			night		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

וַיְבַקֵּ֨שׁ שָׁא֜וּל לְהַכּ֤וֹת בַּֽחֲנִית֙ בְּדָוִ֣ד וּבַקִּ֔יר וַיִּפְטַר֙ מִפְּנֵ֣י שָׁא֔וּל וַיַּ֥ךְ אֶֽת־הַחֲנִ֖ית בַּקִּ֑יר וְדָוִ֛ד נָ֥ס וַיִּמָּלֵ֖ט בַּלַּ֥יְלָה הֽוּא׃פ

1 Samuel 19:10: 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:558 of Mova's parse database.

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