1 Samuel 24:9 · JPS 1917
David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying: 'My lord the king.' And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and prostrated himself.
Who acts: David, Saul · What happens: arise, go out, cry, say, look, bow · To what, where: cave, Saul · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 24:9 · 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 (David, 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 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 arose | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 arose | advmod |
| 3 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 3 arose | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arose | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 cave | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 out | fixed |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cave | det |
| 11 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cried | cc |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arose | conj |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 Saul | case |
| 16 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saying | punct |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 cried | advcl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 lord | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 lord | punct |
| 21 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 lord | nmod:poss |
| 22 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saying | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lord | appos |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 lord | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 lord | punct |
| 27 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 bowed | cc |
| 28 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 30 looked | mark |
| 29 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 looked | nsubj |
| 30 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 bowed | advcl |
| 31 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 looked | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 looked | punct |
| 34 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 bowed | nsubj |
| 35 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arose | conj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 face | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 face | nmod:poss |
| 38 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bowed | obl |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 earth | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 earth | det |
| 41 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bowed | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 prostrated | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 prostrated | cc |
| 44 | prostrated | prostrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 bowed | conj |
| 45 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 44 prostrated | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | David | afterward property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go out | past | David not said here | the cave | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | David not said here | after Saul | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | David not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | look | past | Saul | behind David | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bow | past | David | with Saul's face; to the earth | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme | ||||
| 7 | prostrate | past | David not said here | Saul | tree rules |
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
וַיָּ֨קָם דָּוִ֜ד אַחֲרֵי־כֵ֗ן וַיֵּצֵא֙ מֵֽהַמְּעָרָ֔ה וַיִּקְרָ֧א אַֽחֲרֵי־שָׁא֛וּל לֵאמֹ֖ר אֲדֹנִ֣י הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וַיַּבֵּ֤ט שָׁאוּל֙ אַֽחֲרָ֔יו וַיִּקֹּ֨ד דָּוִ֥ד אַפַּ֛יִם אַ֖רְצָה וַיִּשְׁתָּֽחוּ׃ס
1 Samuel 24:9: 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:705 of Mova's parse database.
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