1 Samuel 21:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And the servants of Achish said unto him: 'Is not this David the king of the land?
Who acts: servants, David · What happens: say, not be · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 21:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (servants, David), 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 | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 servants | det |
| 3 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Achish | case |
| 5 | Achish | Achish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 servants | nmod |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 king | punct |
| 11 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 king | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 king | advmod |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 David | det |
| 14 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 king | nsubj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 land | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 land | det |
| 19 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 king | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 king | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the servants of Achish | unto Achish | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | this David | the king | of the land | 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
וַיֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ עַבְדֵ֤י אָכִישׁ֙ אֵלָ֔יו הֲלוֹא־זֶ֥ה דָוִ֖ד מֶ֣לֶךְ הָאָ֑רֶץ הֲל֣וֹא לָזֶ֗ה יַעֲנ֤וּ בַמְּחֹלוֹת֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר הִכָּ֤ה שָׁאוּל֙ בַּאֲלָפָ֔יו וְדָוִ֖ד בְּרִבְבֹתָֽיו׃
1 Samuel 21:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And the servants of Achish said unto him: 'Is not this David the king of the land?
- Did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying: Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1SA:631 of Mova's parse database.
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