1 Samuel 22:1 · JPS 1917

David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave of Adullam; and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.

Who acts: David, brethren · What happens: depart, escape, hear, go down · To what, where: cave, house, David

This is 1 Samuel 22:1 · 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, brethren), 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	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 departed	nsubj
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 departed	advmod
3	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	thence	thence	ADV	_	3 departed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 escaped	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 escaped	cc
7	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 departed	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 cave	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cave	det
10	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 escaped	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Adullam	case
12	Adullam	Adullam	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cave	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 heard	mark
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 brethren	nmod:poss
17	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 heard	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 house	cc
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 house	det:predet
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 house	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 father	case
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 brethren	conj
24	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 went	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 heard	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 heard	punct
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 went	nsubj
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 departed	conj
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 went	advmod
30	thither	thither	ADV	_	28 went	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 went	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 departed	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	depart	past	David				thence, therefore property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	escape	past	David not said here			the cave of Adullam		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial_Location
3	hear	past	David's brethren and David's father's house	house				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	go down	past	brethren		David		down, thither property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

וַיֵּ֤לֶךְ דָּוִד֙ מִשָּׁ֔ם וַיִּמָּלֵ֖ט אֶל־מְעָרַ֣ת עֲדֻלָּ֑ם וַיִּשְׁמְע֤וּ אֶחָיו֙ וְכָל־בֵּ֣ית אָבִ֔יו וַיֵּרְד֥וּ אֵלָ֖יו שָֽׁמָּה׃

1 Samuel 22:1: 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:637 of Mova's parse database.

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