1 Samuel 23:9 · JPS 1917

And David knew that Saul devised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest: 'Bring hither the ephod.'

Who acts: David, Saul · What happens: know, devise, say, bring · To what, where: mischief, Abiathar, ephod · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 23:9 · 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 (David, 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 knew	cc
2	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 devised	mark
5	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 devised	nsubj
6	devised	devise	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	ccomp
7	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 devised	obj
8	against	against	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 devised	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Abiathar	case
15	Abiathar	Abiathar	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 priest	det
17	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Abiathar	appos
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 Bring	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 Bring	punct
20	Bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
21	hither	hither	ADV	_	20 Bring	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ephod	det
23	ephod	ephod	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Bring	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 Bring	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 Bring	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	David				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	devise	past	Saul	mischief		against David	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	Saul		Abiathar		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to abiathar=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	bring	infinitive		the ephod		hither property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ephod=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

וַיֵּ֣דַע דָּוִ֔ד כִּ֣י עָלָ֔יו שָׁא֖וּל מַחֲרִ֣ישׁ הָרָעָ֑ה וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־אֶבְיָתָ֣ר הַכֹּהֵ֔ן הַגִּ֖ישָׁה הָאֵפֽוֹד׃ס

1 Samuel 23:9: 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:671 of Mova's parse database.

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