1 Samuel 24:3 · JPS 1917

Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.

Who acts: Saul · What happens: take, choose, go, seek · To what, where: thousand chosen men, Israel, David

This is 1 Samuel 24:3 · 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), 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	3 took	advmod
2	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 thousand	nummod
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 men	nummod
6	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 men	amod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 Israel	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Israel	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 Israel	det
11	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 seek	mark
16	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 went	xcomp
17	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 seek	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 men	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 men	nmod:poss
20	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 David	conj
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 rocks	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rocks	det
23	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 David	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 goats	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 goats	det
26	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 goats	amod
27	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 rocks	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	Saul	thousand chosen men	all Israel	then	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent man=Theme out israel=Initial_Location
2	choose	participle					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	Saul not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	seek	to-infinitive	Saul not said here	David and David's men			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent david=Theme

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

וַיִּקַּ֣ח שָׁא֗וּל שְׁלֹ֧שֶׁת אֲלָפִ֛ים אִ֥ישׁ בָּח֖וּר מִכָּל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיֵּ֗לֶךְ לְבַקֵּ֤שׁ אֶת־דָּוִד֙ וַֽאֲנָשָׁ֔יו עַל־פְּנֵ֖י צוּרֵ֥י הַיְּעֵלִֽים׃

1 Samuel 24:3: 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:697 of Mova's parse database.

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