1 Samuel 21:14 · JPS 1917

And he changed his demeanour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.

Who acts: David, spittle · What happens: change, feign, scrabble, let, fall down · To what, where: demeanour, David, hands, doors, spittle, beard

This is 1 Samuel 21:14 · 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, spittle), 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 changed	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 changed	nsubj
3	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 demeanour	nmod:poss
5	demeanour	demeanour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changed	obj
6	before	before	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 changed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 feigned	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 feigned	cc
10	feigned	feign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 changed	conj
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 feigned	obj
12	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feigned	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hands	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hands	nmod:poss
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 feigned	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 scrabbled	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 scrabbled	cc
18	scrabbled	scrabble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 feigned	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 doors	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 doors	det
21	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 scrabbled	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 gate	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gate	det
24	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 doors	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 let	cc
27	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 changed	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 spittle	nmod:poss
29	spittle	spittle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 let	obj
30	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 let	xcomp
31	down	down	ADV	_	30 fall	advmod
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 beard	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 beard	nmod:poss
34	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fall	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 changed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	David	David's demeanour		before servants = servant		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demeanour=Patient
2	feign	past	David not said here	David	servants's hands		mad property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	scrabble	past	David not said here		the doors of the gate			vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent on door=Location
4	let	past	David not said here	David's spittle				tree rules
5	fall down	infinitive	David's spittle not said here		David's beard		down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon beard=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

וַיְשַׁנּ֤וֹ אֶת־טַעְמוֹ֙ בְּעֵ֣ינֵיהֶ֔ם וַיִּתְהֹלֵ֖ל בְּיָדָ֑ם וַיְתָיו֙ עַל־דַּלְת֣וֹת הַשַּׁ֔עַר וַיּ֥וֹרֶד רִיר֖וֹ אֶל־זְקָנֽוֹ׃

1 Samuel 21:14: 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:634 of Mova's parse database.

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