1 Samuel 26:17 · JPS 1917
And Saul knew David's voice, and said: 'Is this thy voice, my son David?' And David said: 'It is my voice, my lord, O king.'
Who acts: Saul, this, David, voice · What happens: know, say, be · To what, where: voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 26:17 · 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 (Saul, this, David, voice), 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 knew | cc |
| 2 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 voice | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 David | case |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 voice | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 voice | punct |
| 12 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 voice | cop |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 voice | nsubj |
| 14 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 voice | nmod:poss |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 son | punct |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 voice | vocative |
| 19 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 son | appos |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 voice | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 voice | punct |
| 22 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 23 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | conj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 voice | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 voice | punct |
| 27 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 voice | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 voice | cop |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 voice | nmod:poss |
| 30 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | ccomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 lord | punct |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 lord | nmod:poss |
| 33 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 voice | vocative |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 king | punct |
| 35 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 36 king | discourse |
| 36 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 voice | vocative |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 voice | punct |
| 38 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=ask, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Saul | David's voice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Saul not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | this | thy voice | my son vocative | tree rules | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | David | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | voice | my voice | my lord vocative; king vocative | tree rules |
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
וַיַּכֵּ֤ר שָׁאוּל֙ אֶת־ק֣וֹל דָּוִ֔ד וַיֹּ֕אמֶר הֲקוֹלְךָ֥ זֶ֖ה בְּנִ֣י דָוִ֑ד וַיֹּ֣אמֶר דָּוִ֔ד קוֹלִ֖י אֲדֹנִ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃
1 Samuel 26:17: 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:786 of Mova's parse database.
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