1 Samuel 26:8 · JPS 1917

Then said Abishai to David: 'God hath delivered up thine enemy into thy hand this day; now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time.'

Who acts: Abishai, God, me, I · What happens: say, deliver up, let, smite, pray, not smite · To what, where: David, enemy, hand, me, one stroke, thee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 26:8 · 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 (Abishai, God, me, I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Abishai	Abishai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 David	case
5	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 delivered	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 delivered	punct
8	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 delivered	nsubj
9	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 delivered	aux
10	delivered	deliver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 delivered	compound:prt
12	thine	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 enemy	nmod:poss
13	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 delivered	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 hand	case
15	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 hand	nmod:poss
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 delivered	obl
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 delivered	obl:unmarked
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 let	advmod
21	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	22 let	advmod
22	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 delivered	parataxis
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	smite	smite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 smite	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pray	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 pray	nsubj
28	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 let	parataxis
29	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 pray	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 spear	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 spear	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 spear	det
33	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 smite	obl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 earth	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 earth	det
36	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 smite	nmod
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 stroke	case
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 stroke	nummod
39	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 smite	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 smite	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 smite	cc
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 smite	nsubj
43	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 smite	aux
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 smite	advmod
45	smite	smite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	conj
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 smite	obj
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 time	det
48	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	49 time	amod
49	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 smite	obl:unmarked
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
51	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: suggest
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	Abishai		David		then		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to david=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	deliver up	present · perfect	God	thine enemy		thy hand	day		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient
3	let	infinitive		me			now	therefore property	tree rules
4	smite	infinitive	me not said here	David		one stroke		with the spear; to the earth result	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with spear=Instrument to earth=Result
5	pray	present	I	thee					tree rules
6	not smite	future	I	David			time		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֲבִישַׁי֙ אֶל־דָּוִ֔ד סִגַּ֨ר אֱלֹהִ֥ים הַיּ֛וֹם אֶת־אוֹיִבְךָ֖ בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ וְעַתָּה֩ אַכֶּ֨נּוּ נָ֜א בַּחֲנִ֤ית וּבָאָ֙רֶץ֙ פַּ֣עַם אַחַ֔ת וְלֹ֥א אֶשְׁנֶ֖ה לֽוֹ׃

1 Samuel 26:8: 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:775 of Mova's parse database.

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