1 Samuel 26:7 · JPS 1917

So David and Abishai came to the people by night; and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the barricade, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay round about him.

Who acts: David, Saul, Abner · What happens: come, lie, sleep, stick · To what, where: spear, ground

This is 1 Samuel 26:7 · 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, Abner), 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	_	5 came	advmod
2	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Abishai	cc
4	Abishai	Abishai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 David	conj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 people	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 lay	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lay	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 behold	punct
14	behold	behold	INTJ	_	17 lay	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 behold	punct
16	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 lay	nsubj
17	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
18	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 lay	xcomp
19	within	within	ADP	_	21 barricade	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 barricade	det
21	barricade	barricade	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 spear	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 spear	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 spear	nmod:poss
25	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	obl
26	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 spear	acl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 ground	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ground	det
29	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stuck	obl
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 head	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 head	nmod:poss
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stuck	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 lay	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 lay	cc
35	Abner	Abner	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 lay	nsubj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 people	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 people	det
38	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 Abner	conj
39	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
40	round	round	ADV	_	42 him	advmod
41	about	about	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 lay	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	David and Abishai			night	to the people	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to people=Initial_Location
2	lie	past	Saul				within the barricade; with David's spear	tree rules
3	sleep	gerund	Saul not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stick	participle		David's spear not said here	the ground		at David's head	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in ground=Destination
5	lie	past	Abner and the people				about David	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about he=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

וַיָּבֹא֩ דָוִ֨ד וַאֲבִישַׁ֥י ׀ אֶל־הָעָם֮ לַיְלָה֒ וְהִנֵּ֣ה שָׁא֗וּל שֹׁכֵ֤ב יָשֵׁן֙ בַּמַּעְגָּ֔ל וַחֲנִית֥וֹ מְעוּכָֽה־בָאָ֖רֶץ מְרַאֲשֹׁתָ֑יו וְאַבְנֵ֣ר וְהָעָ֔ם שֹׁכְבִ֖ים סְבִיבֹתָֽיו׃ס

1 Samuel 26:7: 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:774 of Mova's parse database.

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