1 Samuel 23:25 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3

And they told David; wherefore he came down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon.

Who acts: men, David · What happens: tell, come down, abode · To what, where: David, rock, wilderness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 23:25 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3 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 (men, 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 told	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
6	wherefore	wherefore	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	advcl
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 rock	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rock	det
12	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 abode	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 abode	cc
15	abode	abode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 wilderness	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wilderness	det
18	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 abode	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Maon	case
20	Maon	Maon	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 wilderness	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	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	tell speech: assert	past	men = man	David			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent david=Recipient
2	come down	past	David		the rock	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rock=Initial_Location
3	abode	past	David not said here		the wilderness of Maon		tree rules

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

וַיֵּ֨לֶךְ שָׁא֣וּל וַאֲנָשָׁיו֮ לְבַקֵּשׁ֒ וַיַּגִּ֣דוּ לְדָוִ֔ד וַיֵּ֣רֶד הַסֶּ֔לַע וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב בְּמִדְבַּ֣ר מָע֑וֹן וַיִּשְׁמַ֣ע שָׁא֔וּל וַיִּרְדֹּ֥ף אַחֲרֵֽי־דָוִ֖ד מִדְבַּ֥ר מָעֽוֹן׃

1 Samuel 23:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

This verse in JPS 1917:

And Saul and his men went to seek him.
And they told David; wherefore he came down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon.
And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1SA:690 of Mova's parse database.

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