1 Samuel 20:8 · JPS 1917
Therefore deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee; but if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?'
Who acts: you, thou, iniquity, LORD · What happens: deal, bring, be, slay, covenant · To what, where: servant, covenant, me, father
This is 1 Samuel 20:8 · 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 (you, thou, iniquity, LORD), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 deal | advmod |
| 2 | deal | deal | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 2 deal | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 servant | case |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 servant | nmod:poss |
| 6 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 deal | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 brought | mark |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 brought | nsubj |
| 10 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 brought | aux |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 deal | advcl |
| 12 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 servant | nmod:poss |
| 13 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 covenant | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 covenant | det |
| 16 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 LORD | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 LORD | det |
| 19 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 covenant | nmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 thee | case |
| 21 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 brought | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 slay | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 slay | cc |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 be | mark |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 be | expl |
| 26 | be | be | VERB | Mood=Sub Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 slay | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 be | obl |
| 29 | iniquity | iniquity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 be | nsubj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 be | punct |
| 31 | slay | slay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 deal | conj |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 slay | obj |
| 33 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 31 slay | obj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 bring | punct |
| 35 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 39 bring | mark |
| 36 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 bring | advmod |
| 37 | shouldest | should | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 39 bring | aux |
| 38 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 39 bring | nsubj |
| 39 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 deal | parataxis |
| 40 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 bring | obj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 father | case |
| 42 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 43 father | nmod:poss |
| 43 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 bring | obl |
| 44 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 deal | punct |
| 45 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 deal | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deal | imperative | you not said here | with thy servant; kindly, therefore property | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with servant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | present · perfect | thou | thy servant | a covenant of the LORD | with thee | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent servant=Theme into covenant=Destination | ||
| 3 | be a condition, not said to happen | present | iniquity | there | in me | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in i=Location | |||
| 4 | slay | infinitive | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bring | should | thou | me | thy father | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to father=Destination | |||
| 6 | covenant | the LORD | nom covenant «communication intransitive»: of=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
וְעָשִׂ֤יתָ חֶ֙סֶד֙ עַל־עַבְדֶּ֔ךָ כִּ֚י בִּבְרִ֣ית יְהוָ֔ה הֵבֵ֥אתָ אֶֽת־עַבְדְּךָ֖ עִמָּ֑ךְ וְאִם־יֶשׁ־בִּ֤י עָוֺן֙ הֲמִיתֵ֣נִי אַ֔תָּה וְעַד־אָבִ֖יךָ לָמָּה־זֶּ֥ה תְבִיאֵֽנִי׃פ
1 Samuel 20:8: 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:583 of Mova's parse database.
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