1 Samuel 23:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and slew them with a great slaughter.
Who acts: David · What happens: go, fight, bring away, slay · To what, where: Keilah, cattle, Philistines
This is 1 Samuel 23:5 · 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 (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 went | cc |
| 2 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 men | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 men | nmod:poss |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 David | conj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Keilah | case |
| 8 | Keilah | Keilah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fought | cc |
| 11 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Philistines | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Philistines | det |
| 14 | Philistines | philistine | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 fought | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 brought | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 brought | cc |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADP | _ | 17 brought | compound:prt |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 cattle | nmod:poss |
| 20 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 brought | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 slew | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 slew | cc |
| 23 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 slew | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 slaughter | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 slaughter | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 slaughter | amod |
| 28 | slaughter | slaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 slew | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | David and David's men | Keilah | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to keilah=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | fight | past | David and David's men not said here | with the Philistines | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with philistine=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | bring away | past | David and David's men not said here | Philistines's cattle | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument cattle=Destination | ||||
| 4 | slay | past | David and David's men not said here | Philistines = philistine | with a great slaughter | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with slaughter=Instrument |
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
וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ דָּוִד֩ וַאֲנָשָׁ֨יו קְעִילָ֜ה וַיִּלָּ֣חֶם בַּפְּלִשְׁתִּ֗ים וַיִּנְהַג֙ אֶת־מִקְנֵיהֶ֔ם וַיַּ֥ךְ בָּהֶ֖ם מַכָּ֣ה גְדוֹלָ֑ה וַיֹּ֣שַׁע דָּוִ֔ד אֵ֖ת יֹשְׁבֵ֥י קְעִילָֽה׃ס
1 Samuel 23:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and slew them with a great slaughter.
- So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1SA:665 of Mova's parse database.
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