1 Samuel 20:6 · JPS 1917

If thy father miss me at all, then say: David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Beth-lehem his city; for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.

Who acts: father, you, David, leave · What happens: miss, say, ask, run, be · To what, where: me, all, leave, Beth, yearly sacrifice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 20:6 · 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 (father, you, David, leave), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 miss	mark
2	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 miss	nsubj
4	miss	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 say	advcl
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 miss	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	PRON	PronType=Tot	4 miss	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 miss	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 say	advmod
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct
12	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 asked	nsubj
13	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	14 asked	advmod
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 say	ccomp
15	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 asked	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 leave	nmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 run	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 run	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 run	aux
21	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 asked	ccomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 Beth	case
23	Beth	Beth	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 run	obl
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 lehem	punct
25	lehem	lehem	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Beth	flat
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 city	nmod:poss
27	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Beth	appos
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 sacrifice	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 sacrifice	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sacrifice	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 sacrifice	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sacrifice	det
33	yearly	yearly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sacrifice	amod
34	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	parataxis
35	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 sacrifice	advmod
36	for	for	ADP	_	39 family	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 family	det:predet
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 family	det
39	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sacrifice	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss a condition, not said to happen	present	thy father	me		all			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	past	David	leave of me				earnestly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent leave=Recipient clause=Topic
4	run	might	David		Beth				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to beth=Result
5	is a	present	leave	the yearly sacrifice		there		for all family	tree rules

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

אִם־פָּקֹ֥ד יִפְקְדֵ֖נִי אָבִ֑יךָ וְאָמַרְתָּ֗ נִשְׁאֹל֩ נִשְׁאַ֨ל מִמֶּ֤נִּי דָוִד֙ לָרוּץ֙ בֵּֽית־לֶ֣חֶםבֵּֽית־לֶ֣חֶם עִיר֔וֹ כִּ֣י זֶ֧בַח הַיָּמִ֛ים שָׁ֖ם לְכָל־הַמִּשְׁפָּחָֽה׃

1 Samuel 20:6: 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:581 of Mova's parse database.

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