1 Samuel 21:7 · JPS 1917
So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away. —
Who acts: priest, bread · What happens: give, be, take, put, take away · To what, where: holy bread, David, showbread, hot bread, it
This is 1 Samuel 21:7 · 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, bread), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 gave | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 priest | det |
| 3 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bread | amod |
| 7 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 was | mark |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | parataxis |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 bread | det |
| 13 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 was | advmod |
| 15 | but | but | ADP | _ | 17 showbread | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 showbread | det |
| 17 | showbread | showbread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bread | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 taken | punct |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 taken | aux:pass |
| 21 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 showbread | acl:relcl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 LORD | case |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 LORD | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 LORD | det |
| 25 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 taken | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 put | punct |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 put | mark |
| 28 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 taken | advcl |
| 29 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bread | amod |
| 30 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 put | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 day | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 day | det |
| 33 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 put | obl |
| 34 | when | when | ADV | _ | 37 taken | advmod |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 taken | aux:pass |
| 37 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 day | acl:relcl |
| 38 | away | away | ADV | _ | 37 taken | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
| 40 | — | — | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the priest | holy bread | David | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bread=Theme | |||
| 2 | be | past | no bread but the showbread | there; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past · passive | the showbread | from the LORD | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from lord=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | put | to-infinitive | hot bread | day | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bread=Goal | ||||
| 5 | take away | past · passive | it | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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
וַיִּתֶּן־ל֥וֹ הַכֹּהֵ֖ן קֹ֑דֶשׁ כִּי֩ לֹא־הָ֨יָה שָׁ֜ם לֶ֗חֶם כִּֽי־אִם־לֶ֤חֶם הַפָּנִים֙ הַמּֽוּסָרִים֙ מִלִּפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה לָשׂוּם֙ לֶ֣חֶם חֹ֔ם בְּי֖וֹם הִלָּקְחֽוֹ׃
1 Samuel 21:7: 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:626 of Mova's parse database.
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