1 Samuel 19:20 · JPS 1917
And Saul sent messengers to take David; and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
Who acts: Saul, messengers, company, Samuel, spirit · What happens: send, take, see, prophesy, stand, come · To what, where: messengers, David, company
This is 1 Samuel 19:20 · 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, messengers, company, Samuel), 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 sent | cc |
| 2 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 7 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 came | cc |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 saw | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 came | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 company | det |
| 14 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 prophets | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 prophets | det |
| 17 | prophets | prophet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 company | nmod |
| 18 | prophesying | prophesy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 saw | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 standing | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 standing | cc |
| 21 | Samuel | Samuel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 standing | nsubj |
| 22 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 prophesying | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 head | case |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 standing | obl |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 standing | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 spirit | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 spirit | det |
| 29 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 came | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 God | case |
| 31 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 spirit | nmod |
| 32 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 33 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 35 messengers | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 messengers | det |
| 35 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 came | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Saul | case |
| 37 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 messengers | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 prophesied | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 prophesied | cc |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 prophesied | nsubj |
| 41 | also | also | ADV | _ | 42 prophesied | advmod |
| 42 | prophesied | prophesy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 came | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | 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 | send | past | Saul | messengers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | Saul not said here | David | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument david=Destination | ||||
| 3 | see | past | messengers = messenger | the company of the prophets | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | prophesy | gerund | the company of the prophets not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | stand | gerund | Samuel | as head; over messengers = messenger | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over they=Location | ||||
| 6 | come | past | the spirit of God | the messengers of Saul | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon messenger=Location | ||||
| 7 | prophesy | past | messengers = messenger | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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
וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח שָׁא֣וּל מַלְאָכִים֮ לָקַ֣חַת אֶת־דָּוִד֒ וַיַּ֗רְא אֶֽת־לַהֲקַ֤ת הַנְּבִיאִים֙ נִבְּאִ֔ים וּשְׁמוּאֵ֕ל עֹמֵ֥ד נִצָּ֖ב עֲלֵיהֶ֑ם וַתְּהִ֞י עַֽל־מַלְאֲכֵ֤י שָׁאוּל֙ ר֣וּחַ אֱלֹהִ֔ים וַיִּֽתְנַבְּא֖וּ גַּם־הֵֽמָּה׃
1 Samuel 19:20: 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:569 of Mova's parse database.
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