1 Samuel 20:25 · JPS 1917
And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon the seat by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul's side; but David's place was empty.
Who acts: king, Jonathan, Abner, place · What happens: sit, stand up, be · To what, where: seat
This is 1 Samuel 20:25 · 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 (king, Jonathan, Abner, place), 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 | _ | 4 sat | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 seat | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 seat | nmod:poss |
| 7 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 times | punct |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 times | case |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 times | case |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 times | amod |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sat | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seat | punct |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 seat | advmod |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 seat | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 seat | det |
| 17 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seat | nmod |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 wall | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wall | det |
| 20 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seat | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 stood | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stood | cc |
| 23 | Jonathan | Jonathan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 stood | nsubj |
| 24 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 stood | compound:prt |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sat | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sat | cc |
| 28 | Abner | Abner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 sat | nsubj |
| 29 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 stood | conj |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 side | case |
| 31 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 side | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 Saul | case |
| 33 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sat | obl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 empty | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 empty | cc |
| 36 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 place | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 David | case |
| 38 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 empty | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 empty | cop |
| 40 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 stood | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the king | king's seat upon the seat by the wall | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon seat=Location | |||
| 2 | stand up | past | Jonathan | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sit | past | Abner | by Saul's side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | David's place | empty property | 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
וַיֵּ֣שֶׁב הַ֠מֶּלֶךְ עַל־מ֨וֹשָׁב֜וֹ כְּפַ֣עַם ׀ בְּפַ֗עַם אֶל־מוֹשַׁב֙ הַקִּ֔יר וַיָּ֙קָם֙ יְה֣וֹנָתָ֔ן וַיֵּ֥שֶׁב אַבְנֵ֖ר מִצַּ֣ד שָׁא֑וּל וַיִּפָּקֵ֖ד מְק֥וֹם דָּוִֽד׃
1 Samuel 20:25: 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:601 of Mova's parse database.
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