1 Samuel 25:40 · JPS 1917

And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke unto her, saying: 'David hath sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife.'

Who acts: servants, David · What happens: come, speak, say, send, take · To what, where: servants, Abigail, us, thee, David · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 25:40 · 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 (servants, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	15 spoke	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 come	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 servants	det
4	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 come	nsubj:pass
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 David	case
6	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 servants	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux:pass
8	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 spoke	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Abigail	case
10	Abigail	Abigail	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Carmel	case
12	Carmel	Carmel	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 spoke	nsubj
15	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	unto	unto	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 spoke	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saying	punct
19	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 spoke	advcl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 sent	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 sent	punct
22	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 sent	nsubj
23	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sent	aux
24	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 saying	ccomp
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 sent	obj
26	unto	unto	ADP	_	27 thee	case
27	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 sent	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 take	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	30 take	mark
30	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sent	advcl
31	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 take	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 take	obl
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 wife	case
35	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 take	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 spoke	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: request
voice: character
polarity: pos
teacher: changed act=request

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past · passive		the servants of David	Abigail	to Carmel	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	past	servants = servant			unto Abigail	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	gerund	servants = servant not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	send	present · perfect	David	us		unto thee	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
5	take	to-infinitive	David not said here	thee	David	to wife	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Theme to he=Destination

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

וַיָּבֹ֜אוּ עַבְדֵ֥י דָוִ֛ד אֶל־אֲבִיגַ֖יִל הַכַּרְמֶ֑לָה וַיְדַבְּר֤וּ אֵלֶ֙יהָ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר דָּוִד֙ שְׁלָחָ֣נוּ אֵלַ֔יִךְ לְקַחְתֵּ֥ךְ ל֖וֹ לְאִשָּֽׁה׃

1 Samuel 25:40: 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:762 of Mova's parse database.

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