1 Samuel 29:5 · JPS 1917

Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying: Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?'

Who acts: this, princes, Saul · What happens: not be, sing, say, slay · To what, where: David, one, another, dances, thousands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 29:5 · 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 (this, princes, Saul), 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 David	cop
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 David	advmod
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 David	nsubj
4	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sang	punct
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 whom	case
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 sang	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sang	nsubj
9	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 David	acl:relcl
10	one	one	PRON	_	9 sang	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 another	case
12	another	another	PRON	PronType=Rcp	9 sang	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 dances	case
14	dances	dance	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sang	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saying	punct
16	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sang	advcl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 slain	punct
18	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 slain	nsubj
19	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 slain	aux
20	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 saying	ccomp
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 thousands	nmod:poss
22	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 slain	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 David	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 David	cc
25	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 slain	conj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 thousands	nmod:poss
27	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 thousands	nummod
28	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 David	obj
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 David	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 David	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: evaluate
voice: character
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: changed act=evaluate, form=q, voice=character, indirect=1

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	this	David				tree rules
2	sing speech: express	past	princes = prince	one	another	dances	of David	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Topic to another=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	gerund	princes = prince not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	slay	present · perfect	Saul	Saul's thousands				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=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

הֲלוֹא־זֶ֣ה דָוִ֔ד אֲשֶׁ֧ר יַעֲנוּ־ל֛וֹ בַּמְּחֹל֖וֹת לֵאמֹ֑ר הִכָּ֤ה שָׁאוּל֙ בַּֽאֲלָפָ֔יו וְדָוִ֖ד בְּרִבְבֹתָֽיו׃ס

1 Samuel 29:5: 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:842 of Mova's parse database.

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