1 Samuel 23:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
And Saul said: 'God hath delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.'
Who acts: Saul, God, town · What happens: say, deliver, shut in, enter, have · To what, where: Saul, hand, town, gates · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 23:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (Saul, God, town), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 delivered | punct |
| 6 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 delivered | nsubj |
| 7 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 delivered | aux |
| 8 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 delivered | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 delivered | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 shut | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 shut | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 shut | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 shut | aux:pass |
| 17 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 delivered | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADV | _ | 17 shut | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 entering | punct |
| 20 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 21 entering | mark |
| 21 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 shut | advcl |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 town | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 town | det |
| 24 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 entering | obl |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 hath | nsubj |
| 26 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 town | acl:relcl |
| 27 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 hath | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 bars | cc |
| 29 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 gates | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Saul | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | deliver | present · perfect | God | Saul | my hand | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 3 | shut in | present · passive | Saul | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | enter | gerund | a town | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location | |||||
| 5 | have | present | a town | gates and bars | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=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
וַיֻּגַּ֣ד לְשָׁא֔וּל כִּי־בָ֥א דָוִ֖ד קְעִילָ֑ה וַיֹּ֣אמֶר שָׁא֗וּל נִכַּ֨ר אֹת֤וֹ אֱלֹהִים֙ בְּיָדִ֔י כִּ֚י נִסְגַּ֣ר לָב֔וֹא בְּעִ֖יר דְּלָתַ֥יִם וּבְרִֽיחַ׃
1 Samuel 23:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah.
- And Saul said: 'God hath delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1SA:669 of Mova's parse database.
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