1 Samuel 20:26 · JPS 1917

Nevertheless Saul spoke not any thing that day; for he thought: 'Something hath befallen him, he is unclean; surely he is not clean.'

Who acts: Saul, Something · What happens: not speak, think, befall, be, not be · To what, where: thing, Saul · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 20:26 · 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 (Saul, Something), 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	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	3 spoke	advmod
2	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 spoke	advmod
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 thing	det
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	obj
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	obl:unmarked
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 thought	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spoke	advcl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 befallen	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 befallen	punct
15	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 befallen	nsubj
16	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 befallen	aux
17	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 thought	ccomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 befallen	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 unclean	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 unclean	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 unclean	cop
22	unclean	unclean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 befallen	parataxis
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 clean	punct
24	surely	surely	ADV	_	28 clean	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 clean	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 clean	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 clean	advmod
28	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spoke	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	past	Saul	any thing	day	nevertheless property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	Saul				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	befall	present · perfect	Something	Saul			tree rules
4	is	present	Saul			unclean property	tree rules
5	not is	present	Saul			clean, surely 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

וְלֹֽא־דִבֶּ֥ר שָׁא֛וּל מְא֖וּמָה בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֑וּא כִּ֤י אָמַר֙ מִקְרֶ֣ה ה֔וּא בִּלְתִּ֥י טָה֛וֹר ה֖וּא כִּֽי־לֹ֥א טָהֽוֹר׃ס

1 Samuel 20:26: 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:602 of Mova's parse database.

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