1 Samuel 26:15 · JPS 1917

And David said to Abner: 'Art not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept watch over thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord.

Who acts: David, thou, valiant man, one · What happens: say, not be, be, not keep, come, destroy · To what, where: Abner, valiant man, Israel, watch, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 26:15 · 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, thou, valiant man, one), 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	_	3 said	cc
2	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Abner	case
5	Abner	Abner	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
8	Art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 man	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 man	advmod
10	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 man	nsubj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	valiant	valiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 like	cc
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 like	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 like	cop
18	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 thee	case
20	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 like	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 Israel	case
22	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 like	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
24	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	29 kept	advmod
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 kept	advmod
26	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 kept	aux
27	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	29 kept	nsubj
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 kept	advmod
29	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	parataxis
30	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kept	obj
31	over	over	ADP	_	33 lord	case
32	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	33 lord	nmod:poss
33	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kept	obl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 king	det
35	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lord	appos
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 kept	punct
37	for	for	SCONJ	_	39 came	mark
38	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	39 came	expl
39	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 kept	advcl
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 came	nsubj
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 people	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 people	det
43	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 one	nmod
44	in	in	ADV	_	39 came	advmod
45	to	to	PART	_	46 destroy	mark
46	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 came	advcl
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 king	det
48	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 destroy	obj
49	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	50 lord	nmod:poss
50	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 king	appos
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: neg
indirect: yes
teacher: changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=1

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	David		Abner				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to abner=Recipient
2	not is a	present	thou	a valiant man					tree rules
3	is	present	a valiant man			Israel		to thee; like property	tree rules
4	not keep	present · perfect	thou	watch			then	over thy lord; wherefore property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme over lord=Location
5	come	past	one of the people			there			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	destroy	to-infinitive	one of the people not said here	the king					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient

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

וַיֹּאמֶר֩ דָּוִ֨ד אֶל־אַבְנֵ֜ר הֲלוֹא־אִ֣ישׁ אַתָּ֗ה וּמִ֤י כָמ֙וֹךָ֙ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְלָ֙מָּה֙ לֹ֣א שָׁמַ֔רְתָּ אֶל־אֲדֹנֶ֖יךָ הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ כִּי־בָא֙ אַחַ֣ד הָעָ֔ם לְהַשְׁחִ֖ית אֶת־הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ אֲדֹנֶֽיךָ׃

1 Samuel 26:15: 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:782 of Mova's parse database.

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