1 Samuel 29:9 · JPS 1917
And Achish answered and said to David: 'I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God; notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said: He shall not go up with us to the battle.
Who acts: Achish, I, thou, princes, my · What happens: answer, say, know, be, not go up, sight · To what, where: David, sight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 29:9 · 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 (Achish, I, thou, princes), 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 answered | cc |
| 2 | Achish | Achish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 David | case |
| 7 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 good | mark |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 good | nsubj |
| 14 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 good | cop |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 know | ccomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sight | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sight | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 good | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 angel | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 angel | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 angel | det |
| 22 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 good | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 God | case |
| 24 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 angel | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 said | punct |
| 26 | notwithstanding | notwithstanding | ADV | _ | 33 said | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 princes | det |
| 28 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 said | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Philistines | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Philistines | det |
| 31 | Philistines | Philistine | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 princes | nmod |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 said | aux |
| 33 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 know | parataxis |
| 34 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 go | punct |
| 35 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 go | nsubj |
| 36 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 go | aux |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 go | advmod |
| 38 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 said | ccomp |
| 39 | up | up | ADV | _ | 38 go | compound:prt |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 us | case |
| 41 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 go | obl |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 battle | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 battle | det |
| 44 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 go | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed indirect=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Achish | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Achish not said here | David | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to david=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | present | thou | my sight | as a angel of God; good property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present · perfect | the princes of the Philistines | notwithstanding property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | not go up | shall | Achish | with us; to the battle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | sight | my | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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
וַיַּ֣עַן אָכִישׁ֮ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֶל־דָּוִד֒ יָדַ֕עְתִּי כִּ֣י ט֥וֹב אַתָּ֛ה בְּעֵינַ֖י כְּמַלְאַ֣ךְ אֱלֹהִ֑ים אַ֣ךְ שָׂרֵ֤י פְלִשְׁתִּים֙ אָֽמְר֔וּ לֹֽא־יַעֲלֶ֥ה עִמָּ֖נוּ בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה׃
1 Samuel 29:9: 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:846 of Mova's parse database.
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