1 Samuel 27:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel.
Who acts: David · What happens: smite, leave, take away · To what, where: land, man, sheep
This is 1 Samuel 27:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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), 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 smote | cc |
| 2 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 smote | nsubj |
| 3 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 land | det |
| 5 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smote | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 left | cc |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 smote | conj |
| 9 | neither | neither | CCONJ | _ | 10 man | cc:preconj |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 woman | cc |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 man | conj |
| 13 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 left | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 smote | conj |
| 17 | away | away | ADP | _ | 16 took | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sheep | det |
| 19 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 took | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 oxen | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 oxen | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 oxen | det |
| 23 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sheep | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 asses | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 asses | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 asses | det |
| 27 | asses | ass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sheep | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 camels | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 camels | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 camels | det |
| 31 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sheep | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 apparel | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 apparel | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 apparel | det |
| 35 | apparel | apparel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sheep | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smote | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smite | past | David | the land | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus land=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | David not said here | man nor woman | alive property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 3 | take away | past | David not said here | the sheep and the oxen and the asses and the camels and the apparel | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme |
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
וְהִכָּ֤ה דָוִד֙ אֶת־הָאָ֔רֶץ וְלֹ֥א יְחַיֶּ֖ה אִ֣ישׁ וְאִשָּׁ֑ה וְלָקַח֩ צֹ֨אן וּבָקָ֜ר וַחֲמֹרִ֤ים וּגְמַלִּים֙ וּבְגָדִ֔ים וַיָּ֖שָׁב וַיָּבֹ֥א אֶל־אָכִֽישׁ׃
1 Samuel 27:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel.
- And he returned, and came to Achish.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1SA:804 of Mova's parse database.
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