1 Samuel 22:21 · JPS 1917
And Abiathar told David that Saul had slain the LORD'S priests.
Who acts: Abiathar, Saul · What happens: tell, slay · To what, where: David, priests · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 22:21 · 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 (Abiathar, Saul), 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 told | cc |
| 2 | Abiathar | Abiathar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 slain | mark |
| 6 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 slain | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 slain | aux |
| 8 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 told | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 LORD | det |
| 10 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 priests | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 'S | 's | PART | _ | 10 LORD | case |
| 12 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 slain | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Abiathar | David | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent david=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | slay | past · perfect | Saul | the LORD's priests | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Patient |
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
וַיַּגֵּ֥ד אֶבְיָתָ֖ר לְדָוִ֑ד כִּ֚י הָרַ֣ג שָׁא֔וּל אֵ֖ת כֹּהֲנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃
1 Samuel 22:21: 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:657 of Mova's parse database.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
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