1 Samuel 25:21 · JPS 1917

Now David had said: 'Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him; and he hath returned me evil for good.

Who acts: David, I, fellow · What happens: say, keep, have, miss, pertain, return · To what, where: all, vain, wilderness, nothing, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 25:21 · 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, I, fellow), 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	4 said	advmod
2	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 kept	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 kept	punct
7	Surely	surely	ADV	_	12 kept	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 vain	case
9	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kept	obl
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 kept	aux
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 kept	nsubj
12	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	ccomp
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 kept	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 hath	obj
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 fellow	det
16	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hath	nsubj
17	hath	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 all	acl:relcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 wilderness	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wilderness	det
20	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hath	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 missed	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 missed	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 missed	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 missed	aux:pass
26	missed	miss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 kept	advcl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 all	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 missed	obl
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 pertained	nsubj
30	pertained	pertain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 all	acl:relcl
31	unto	unto	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 pertained	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 returned	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 returned	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 returned	nsubj
36	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 returned	aux
37	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 kept	conj
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 returned	iobj
39	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 returned	xcomp
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 good	case
41	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 returned	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · perfect	David				now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	keep	present · perfect	I	all		vain		surely property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent all=Theme in vain=Location
3	have	present	this fellow			the wilderness			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
4	miss	past · passive		nothing				of all	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
5	pertain	past						unto David	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
6	return	present · perfect	David		me			for good; evil property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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

וְדָוִ֣ד אָמַ֗ר אַךְ֩ לַשֶּׁ֨קֶר שָׁמַ֜רְתִּי אֶֽת־כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֤ר לָזֶה֙ בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר וְלֹא־נִפְקַ֥ד מִכָּל־אֲשֶׁר־ל֖וֹ מְא֑וּמָה וַיָּֽשֶׁב־לִ֥י רָעָ֖ה תַּ֥חַת טוֹבָֽה׃

1 Samuel 25:21: 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:742 of Mova's parse database.

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