1 Samuel 23:1 · JPS 1917

And they told David, saying: 'Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and they rob the threshing-floors.'

Who acts: they, Philistines · What happens: tell, say, fight, rob · To what, where: David, threshing floors · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 23:1 · 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 (they, Philistines), 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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saying	punct
6	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 told	advcl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 fighting	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 fighting	punct
9	Behold	behold	INTJ	_	14 fighting	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fighting	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Philistines	det
12	Philistines	philistine	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 fighting	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fighting	aux
14	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 saying	ccomp
15	against	against	ADP	_	16 Keilah	case
16	Keilah	Keilah	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 fighting	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rob	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rob	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 rob	nsubj
20	rob	rob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fighting	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 floors	det
22	threshing	threshing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 floors	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 threshing	punct
24	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 rob	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	they		David		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent david=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	gerund	they not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fight	present · progressive	the Philistines			against Keilah	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rob	present	Philistines = philistine	the threshing floors			vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floor=Source

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

וַיַּגִּ֥דוּ לְדָוִ֖ד לֵאמֹ֑ר הִנֵּ֤ה פְלִשְׁתִּים֙ נִלְחָמִ֣ים בִּקְעִילָ֔ה וְהֵ֖מָּה שֹׁסִ֥ים אֶת־הַגֳּרָנֽוֹת׃

1 Samuel 23:1: 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:660 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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