1 Samuel 20:10 · JPS 1917

Then said David to Jonathan: 'Who shall tell me if perchance thy father answer thee roughly?'

Who acts: David, father · What happens: say, tell, answer · To what, where: Jonathan, me, thee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 20:10 · 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 (David, father), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Jonathan	case
5	Jonathan	Jonathan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
8	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	10 tell	nsubj
9	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	aux
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 answer	mark
13	perchance	perchance	ADV	_	16 answer	advmod
14	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 answer	nsubj
16	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Sub VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	advcl
17	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 answer	obj
18	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	16 answer	advmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed indirect=0

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	David		Jonathan	then		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to jonathan=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	shall			me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	answer speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	thy father	thee			perchance, roughly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality

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

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר דָּוִד֙ אֶל־יְה֣וֹנָתָ֔ן מִ֖י יַגִּ֣יד לִ֑י א֛וֹ מַה־יַּעַנְךָ֥ אָבִ֖יךָ קָשָֽׁה׃ס

1 Samuel 20:10: 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:585 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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