1 Samuel 23:25 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3
And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
Who acts: Saul · What happens: hear, pursue · To what, where: that, wilderness
This is 1 Samuel 23:25 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 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 (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 | _ | 8 pursued | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 heard | mark |
| 3 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pursued | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pursued | nsubj |
| 8 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 David | case |
| 10 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 pursued | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 wilderness | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wilderness | det |
| 13 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pursued | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Maon | case |
| 15 | Maon | Maon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 wilderness | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Saul | that | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pursue | past | Saul | the wilderness of Maon | after David | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in wilderness=Trajectory |
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:691 of Mova's parse database.
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