1 Samuel 23:10 · JPS 1917

Then said David: 'O LORD, the God of Israel, Thy servant hath surely heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

Who acts: David, servant, Saul · What happens: say, hear, seek, come, destroy · To what, where: Keilah, city · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 23:10 · 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, servant, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
6	O	o	INTJ	_	7 LORD	discourse
7	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 heard	vocative
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 God	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 God	det
10	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 LORD	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Israel	case
12	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 God	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 servant	punct
14	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	15 servant	nmod:poss
15	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heard	nsubj
16	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 heard	aux
17	surely	surely	ADV	_	18 heard	advmod
18	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 seeketh	mark
20	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 seeketh	nsubj
21	seeketh	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 heard	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 come	mark
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 seeketh	xcomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 Keilah	case
25	Keilah	Keilah	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 destroy	punct
27	to	to	PART	_	28 destroy	mark
28	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 come	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 city	det
30	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 destroy	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 sake	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 sake	nmod:poss
33	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 destroy	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	David			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hear	present · perfect	Thy servant				LORD vocative; surely property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	seek	present	Saul					tree rules
4	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	Saul not said here		Keilah			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to keilah=Initial_Location
5	destroy	to-infinitive	Saul not said here	the city			for my sake	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=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

וַיֹּאמֶר֮ דָּוִד֒ יְהוָה֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל שָׁמֹ֤עַ שָׁמַע֙ עַבְדְּךָ֔ כִּֽי־מְבַקֵּ֥שׁ שָׁא֖וּל לָב֣וֹא אֶל־קְעִילָ֑ה לְשַׁחֵ֥ת לָעִ֖יר בַּעֲבוּרִֽי׃

1 Samuel 23:10: 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:672 of Mova's parse database.

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