1 Samuel 23:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph.
Who acts: David · What happens: abide, remain · To what, where: wilderness, hill country
This is 1 Samuel 23:14 · 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 | _ | 3 abode | cc |
| 2 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 abode | nsubj |
| 3 | abode | abide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 wilderness | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wilderness | det |
| 6 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 abode | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 strongholds | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 strongholds | det |
| 9 | strongholds | stronghold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 abode | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 remained | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 remained | cc |
| 12 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 abode | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 country | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 country | det |
| 15 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 country | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 hill | punct |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remained | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 wilderness | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wilderness | det |
| 20 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 country | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Ziph | case |
| 22 | Ziph | Ziph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 wilderness | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 abode | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abide | past | David | the wilderness | in the strongholds | tree rules | |||
| 2 | remain | past | David not said here | the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
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
וַיֵּ֨שֶׁב דָּוִ֤ד בַּמִּדְבָּר֙ בַּמְּצָד֔וֹת וַיֵּ֥שֶׁב בָּהָ֖ר בְּמִדְבַּר־זִ֑יף וַיְבַקְשֵׁ֤הוּ שָׁאוּל֙ כָּל־הַיָּמִ֔ים וְלֹֽא־נְתָנ֥וֹ אֱלֹהִ֖ים בְּיָדֽוֹ׃
1 Samuel 23:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph.
- And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1SA:677 of Mova's parse database.
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