1 Samuel 27:5 · JPS 1917

And David said unto Achish: 'If now I have found favour in thine eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there; for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?'

Who acts: David, I, eyes, servant · What happens: say, find, let, give, dwell · To what, where: favour, eyes, place, me, royal city · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 27:5 · 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, I, eyes, servant), 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	unto	unto	ADP	_	5 Achish	case
5	Achish	Achish	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
8	If	if	SCONJ	_	12 found	mark
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 found	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 found	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 found	aux
12	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 let	advcl
13	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 eyes	case
15	thine	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 eyes	nmod:poss
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 found	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 give	iobj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 place	det
23	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 one	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 place	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 cities	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cities	det
28	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 one	nmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 country	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 country	det
31	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cities	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 dwell	punct
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 dwell	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 dwell	nsubj
35	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 dwell	aux
36	dwell	dwell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	advcl
37	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 dwell	advmod
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 dwell	punct
39	for	for	SCONJ	_	44 dwell	mark
40	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	44 dwell	advmod
41	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 dwell	aux
42	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	43 servant	nmod:poss
43	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 dwell	nsubj
44	dwell	dwell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 dwell	advcl
45	in	in	ADP	_	48 city	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 city	det
47	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 city	amod
48	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 dwell	obl
49	with	with	ADP	_	50 thee	case
50	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	44 dwell	obl
51	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
52	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	David					unto Achish	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	find a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect	I	favour		thine eyes	now		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic
3	let	infinitive		eyes = eye					tree rules
4	give	infinitive	eyes = eye not said here	a place	me			in one of the cities in the country	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient place=Theme
5	dwell	may	I			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	dwell	should	thy servant			the royal city		with thee	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=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

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר דָּוִ֜ד אֶל־אָכִ֗ישׁ אִם־נָא֩ מָצָ֨אתִי חֵ֤ן בְּעֵינֶ֙יךָ֙ יִתְּנוּ־לִ֣י מָק֗וֹם בְּאַחַ֛ת עָרֵ֥י הַשָּׂדֶ֖ה וְאֵ֣שְׁבָה שָּׁ֑ם וְלָ֨מָּה יֵשֵׁ֧ב עַבְדְּךָ֛ בְּעִ֥יר הַמַּמְלָכָ֖ה עִמָּֽךְ׃

1 Samuel 27:5: 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:800 of Mova's parse database.

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