1 Samuel 20:28 · JPS 1917
And Jonathan answered Saul: 'David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Beth-lehem;
Who acts: Jonathan, David, leave · What happens: answer, ask, go · To what, where: Saul, leave, Beth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 20:28 · 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 (Jonathan, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 answered | cc |
| 2 | Jonathan | Jonathan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 7 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 9 asked | advmod |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 10 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 leave | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Beth | case |
| 16 | Beth | Beth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Beth | punct |
| 18 | lehem | Beth-lehem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Beth | flat |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Jonathan | Saul | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | David | leave of me | earnestly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent leave=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | leave of me not said here | Beth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to beth=Initial_Location |
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
וַיַּ֥עַן יְהוֹנָתָ֖ן אֶת־שָׁא֑וּל נִשְׁאֹ֨ל נִשְׁאַ֥ל דָּוִ֛ד מֵעִמָּדִ֖י עַד־בֵּ֥ית לָֽחֶם בֵּ֥ית לָֽחֶם׃
1 Samuel 20:28: 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:604 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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