1 Samuel 23:6 · JPS 1917

And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.

Who acts: slaughter, Abiathar, David · What happens: come, pass, flee, come down · To what, where: Keilah, David

This is 1 Samuel 23:6 · 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 (slaughter, Abiathar, 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	_	3 came	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fled	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 fled	mark
8	Abiathar	Abiathar	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 fled	nsubj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 son	det
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Abiathar	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Ahimelech	case
12	Ahimelech	Ahimelech	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 son	nmod
13	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 David	case
15	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 fled	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Keilah	case
17	Keilah	Keilah	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 fled	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 came	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	ccomp
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 came	advmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 ephod	case
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 ephod	det
25	ephod	ephod	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 hand	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hand	nmod:poss
28	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ephod	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	slaughter				tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	slaughter not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	flee	past	Abiathar	Keilah	David		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to david=Initial_Location to keilah=Destination
4	come down	past	David			with a ephod in David's hand; down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

וַיְהִ֗י בִּ֠בְרֹחַ אֶבְיָתָ֧ר בֶּן־אֲחִימֶ֛לֶךְ אֶל־דָּוִ֖ד קְעִילָ֑ה אֵפ֖וֹד יָרַ֥ד בְּיָדֽוֹ׃

1 Samuel 23:6: 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:667 of Mova's parse database.

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