1 Samuel 20:1 · JPS 1917

And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan: 'What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?'

Who acts: David, I, iniquity · What happens: flee, come, say, do, be, seek · To what, where: Naioth, iniquity, sin, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 20:1 · 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 (David, I, iniquity), 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 fled	cc
2	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fled	nsubj
3	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Naioth	case
5	Naioth	Naioth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fled	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Ramah	case
7	Ramah	Ramah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fled	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fled	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
13	before	before	ADP	_	14 Jonathan	case
14	Jonathan	Jonathan	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 done	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 done	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 done	obj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 done	aux
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 done	nsubj
20	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 done	punct
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 iniquity	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 iniquity	cop
24	mine	mine	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 iniquity	nmod:poss
25	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 done	parataxis
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	25 iniquity	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sin	cc
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 sin	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 sin	cop
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 sin	nmod:poss
31	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 iniquity	conj
32	before	before	ADP	_	34 father	case
33	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	34 father	nmod:poss
34	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sin	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 seeketh	punct
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 seeketh	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 seeketh	nsubj
38	seeketh	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 father	acl:relcl
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 life	nmod:poss
40	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 seeketh	obj
41	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 done	punct
42	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 done	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=ask

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	David		Naioth		in Ramah	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from naioth=Initial_Location
2	come	past	David not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	David not said here			before Jonathan		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do	present · perfect	I					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	is a	present		mine iniquity and my sin				tree rules
6	is a	present	mine iniquity and my sin	my sin		before thy father		tree rules
7	seek	present	David	my life				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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

וַיִּבְרַ֣ח דָּוִ֔ד מִנָּי֖וֹת בָּרָמָ֑ה וַיָּבֹ֞א וַיֹּ֣אמֶר ׀ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוֹנָתָ֗ן מֶ֤ה עָשִׂ֙יתִי֙ מֶֽה־עֲוֺנִ֤י וּמֶֽה־חַטָּאתִי֙ לִפְנֵ֣י אָבִ֔יךָ כִּ֥י מְבַקֵּ֖שׁ אֶת־נַפְשִֽׁי׃

1 Samuel 20:1: 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:576 of Mova's parse database.

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