1 Samuel 24:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
So David checked his men with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul.
Who acts: David · What happens: check, suffer, not rise · To what, where: men, Saul
This is 1 Samuel 24:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 checked | advmod |
| 2 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 checked | nsubj |
| 3 | checked | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | 3 checked | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 words | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 words | det |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 checked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 suffered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 suffered | cc |
| 11 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 checked | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 suffered | obj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 rise | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 rise | mark |
| 15 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 suffered | xcomp |
| 16 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 Saul | case |
| 17 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 rise | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 checked | 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 | check | past | David | David's men | with this words | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 2 | suffer | past | David not said here | men = man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not rise | to-infinitive | David not said here | Saul | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against saul=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
וַיְשַׁסַּ֨ע דָּוִ֤ד אֶת־אֲנָשָׁיו֙ בַּדְּבָרִ֔ים וְלֹ֥א נְתָנָ֖ם לָק֣וּם אֶל־שָׁא֑וּל וְשָׁא֛וּל קָ֥ם מֵהַמְּעָרָ֖ה וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ בַּדָּֽרֶךְ׃ס
1 Samuel 24:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- So David checked his men with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul.
- And Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1SA:703 of Mova's parse database.
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