1 Samuel 26:18 · JPS 1917

And he said: 'Wherefore doth my lord pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?

Who acts: David, lord, I, evil · What happens: say, pursue, do, be · To what, where: hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 26:18 · 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, lord, I, evil), 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 pursue	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 pursue	punct
6	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	10 pursue	advmod
7	doth	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pursue	aux
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lord	nmod:poss
9	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pursue	nsubj
10	pursue	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
11	after	after	ADP	_	13 servant	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 servant	nmod:poss
13	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pursue	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 pursue	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	19 done	case
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 done	obj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 done	aux
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 done	nsubj
19	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 pursue	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 done	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 hand	cc
22	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	23 evil	det
23	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hand	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 hand	cop
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 hand	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hand	nmod:poss
27	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 done	conj
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 pursue	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	David				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pursue	present · do-support	my lord		after David's servant	wherefore property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after servant=Theme
3	do	present · perfect	I				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	is	present	what evil	my hand			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

וַיֹּ֕אמֶר לָ֥מָּה זֶּ֛ה אֲדֹנִ֥י רֹדֵ֖ף אַחֲרֵ֣י עַבְדּ֑וֹ כִּ֚י מֶ֣ה עָשִׂ֔יתִי וּמַה־בְּיָדִ֖י רָעָֽה׃

1 Samuel 26:18: 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:787 of Mova's parse database.

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