1 Samuel 21:2 · JPS 1917

Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest; and Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said unto him: 'Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?'

Who acts: David, Ahimelech · What happens: come, meet, tremble, say, be · To what, where: Ahimelech, Nob, David · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 21:2 · 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, Ahimelech), 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 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 alone	ccomp
3	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Nob	case
5	Nob	Nob	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Ahimelech	case
7	Ahimelech	Ahimelech	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 priest	det
9	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Ahimelech	appos
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
12	Ahimelech	Ahimelech	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 meet	mark
15	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 came	advcl
16	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 meet	obj
17	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 came	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	conj
21	unto	unto	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 alone	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 alone	punct
25	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	26 art	advmod
26	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 alone	cop
27	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 art	nsubj
28	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 man	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 man	cc
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 man	det
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 alone	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 thee	case
34	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 man	nmod
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 alone	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 alone	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: evaluate
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed indirect=0

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	David		Ahimelech	Nob	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to nob=Initial_Location to ahimelech=Destination
2	come	past	Ahimelech						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	meet	to-infinitive	Ahimelech not said here	David					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent david=Co-Agent
4	tremble	gerund	Ahimelech not said here						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	Ahimelech not said here					unto David	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	present						alone 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

וַיָּבֹ֤א דָוִד֙ נֹ֔בֶה אֶל־אֲחִימֶ֖לֶךְ הַכֹּהֵ֑ן וַיֶּחֱרַ֨ד אֲחִימֶ֜לֶךְ לִקְרַ֣את דָּוִ֗ד וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לוֹ֙ מַדּ֤וּעַ אַתָּה֙ לְבַדֶּ֔ךָ וְאִ֖ישׁ אֵ֥ין אִתָּֽךְ׃

1 Samuel 21:2: 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:621 of Mova's parse database.

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