1 Samuel 25:23 · JPS 1917

And when Abigail saw David, she made haste, and alighted from her ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed down to the ground.

Who acts: Abigail · What happens: see, make, alight, fall, bow down · To what, where: David, haste, ass, face

This is 1 Samuel 25:23 · 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 (Abigail), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 made	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 saw	mark
3	Abigail	Abigail	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	advcl
5	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 alighted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 alighted	cc
12	alighted	alight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 ass	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 ass	nmod:poss
15	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 alighted	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fell	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fell	cc
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	conj
19	before	before	ADP	_	20 David	case
20	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 fell	obl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 face	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 face	nmod:poss
23	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fell	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bowed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bowed	cc
26	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fell	conj
27	down	down	ADV	_	26 bowed	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 ground	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ground	det
30	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bowed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Abigail	David				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer david=Stimulus
2	make	past	Abigail	haste				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product
3	alight	past	Abigail not said here		Abigail's ass			tree rules
4	fall	past	Abigail not said here		Abigail's face	before David		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before david=Location
5	bow down	past	Abigail not said here				to the ground; down property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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

וַתֵּ֤רֶא אֲבִיגַ֙יִל֙ אֶת־דָּוִ֔ד וַתְּמַהֵ֕ר וַתֵּ֖רֶד מֵעַ֣ל הַחֲמ֑וֹר וַתִּפֹּ֞ל לְאַפֵּ֤י דָוִד֙ עַל־פָּנֶ֔יהָ וַתִּשְׁתַּ֖חוּ אָֽרֶץ׃

1 Samuel 25:23: 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:744 of Mova's parse database.

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