1 Samuel 23:28 · JPS 1917

So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines; therefore they called that place Sela-hammahlekoth.

Who acts: Saul, Philistines · What happens: return, pursue, go, call · To what, where: Philistines, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 23:28 · 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 (Saul, Philistines), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 returned	advmod
2	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 returned	nsubj
3	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 pursuing	mark
5	pursuing	pursue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 returned	advcl
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 David	case
7	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pursuing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 returned	conj
11	against	against	ADP	_	13 Philistines	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Philistines	det
13	Philistines	philistine	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 went	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 called	punct
15	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	17 called	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 called	nsubj
17	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 returned	conj
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 place	det
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 called	obj
20	Sela	Sela	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 hammahlekoth	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 hammahlekoth	punct
22	hammahlekoth	hammahlekoth	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 place	flat
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 returned	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	Saul					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pursue	gerund	Saul not said here			after David		vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after david=Theme
3	go	past	Saul not said here		the Philistines			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against philistine=Location
4	call	past	Philistines = philistine	that place			therefore property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent place=Recipient

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

וַיָּ֣שָׁב שָׁא֗וּל מִרְדֹף֙ אַחֲרֵ֣י דָוִ֔ד וַיֵּ֖לֶךְ לִקְרַ֣את פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים עַל־כֵּ֗ן קָֽרְאוּ֙ לַמָּק֣וֹם הַה֔וּא סֶ֖לַע הַֽמַּחְלְקֽוֹת סֶ֖לַע הַֽמַּחְלְקֽוֹת׃

1 Samuel 23:28: 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:694 of Mova's parse database.

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