1 Samuel 24:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave.
Who acts: David · What happens: sit · To what, where: innermost parts
This is 1 Samuel 24:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 sitting | advmod |
| 2 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sitting | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 men | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 men | nmod:poss |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 David | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sitting | aux |
| 7 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 parts | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 parts | det |
| 10 | innermost | innermost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 parts | amod |
| 11 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sitting | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 cave | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cave | det |
| 14 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 parts | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sitting | 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 | sit | past · progressive | David and David's men | the innermost parts of the cave | now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in part=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
וַ֠יָּבֹא אֶל־גִּדְר֨וֹת הַצֹּ֤אן עַל־הַדֶּ֙רֶךְ֙ וְשָׁ֣ם מְעָרָ֔ה וַיָּבֹ֥א שָׁא֖וּל לְהָסֵ֣ךְ אֶת־רַגְלָ֑יו וְדָוִד֙ וַאֲנָשָׁ֔יו בְּיַרְכְּתֵ֥י הַמְּעָרָ֖ה יֹשְׁבִֽים׃
1 Samuel 24:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet.
- Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1SA:699 of Mova's parse database.
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