1 Samuel 21:5 · JPS 1917

And the priest answered David, and said: 'There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.'

Who acts: priest, common bread, holy bread, young men · What happens: answer, say, be, keep · To what, where: David, hand, loaves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 21:5 · 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 (priest, common bread, holy bread, young men), 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 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 priest	det
3	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 answered	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct
11	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 is	expl
12	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 bread	det
14	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bread	amod
15	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 is	nsubj
16	under	under	ADP	_	18 hand	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hand	nmod:poss
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 is	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 is	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 is	cc
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 is	expl
22	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 is	conj
23	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bread	amod
24	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 is	nsubj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 kept	punct
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 kept	mark
27	only	only	ADV	_	30 men	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 men	det
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 men	amod
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 kept	nsubj
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 kept	aux
32	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 is	advcl
33	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 kept	obj
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 women	case
35	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 kept	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the priest		David			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent david=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	the priest not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be	present	no common bread			my hand; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under hand=Location
4	be	present	holy bread			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	keep a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect	the young men	loaves = loaf			from women	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer themselves=Beneficiary from woman=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

וַיַּ֨עַן הַכֹּהֵ֤ן אֶת־דָּוִד֙ וַיֹּ֔אמֶר אֵֽין־לֶ֥חֶם חֹ֖ל אֶל־תַּ֣חַת יָדִ֑י כִּֽי־אִם־לֶ֤חֶם קֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ יֵ֔שׁ אִם־נִשְׁמְר֥וּ הַנְּעָרִ֖ים אַ֥ךְ מֵאִשָּֽׁה׃פ

1 Samuel 21:5: 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:624 of Mova's parse database.

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