1 Samuel 30:8 · JPS 1917

And David inquired of the LORD, saying: 'Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them?' And He answered him: 'Pursue; for thou shalt surely overtake them, and shalt without fail recover all.'

Who acts: David, I, Abiathar, thou · What happens: inquire, say, pursue, overtake, answer, recover · To what, where: David, Ahimelech, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 30:8 · 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, Abiathar, thou), 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 inquired	cc
2	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 inquired	nsubj
3	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 LORD	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 LORD	det
6	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 inquired	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saying	punct
8	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 inquired	advcl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 pursue	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 pursue	punct
11	Shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 pursue	aux
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 pursue	nsubj
13	pursue	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 saying	ccomp
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 troop	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 troop	det
16	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pursue	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 pursue	punct
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 overtake	aux
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 overtake	nsubj
20	overtake	overtake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 pursue	parataxis
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 overtake	obj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 pursue	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 pursue	punct
24	And	and	CCONJ	_	26 answered	cc
25	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 answered	nsubj
26	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 inquired	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 answered	iobj
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 Pursue	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 Pursue	punct
30	Pursue	pursue	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 answered	ccomp
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 overtake	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 overtake	mark
33	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	36 overtake	nsubj
34	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	36 overtake	aux
35	surely	surely	ADV	_	36 overtake	advmod
36	overtake	overtake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 Pursue	advcl
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 overtake	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 recover	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 recover	cc
40	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	43 recover	aux
41	without	without	ADP	_	42 fail	case
42	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 recover	obl
43	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 overtake	conj
44	all	all	PRON	PronType=Tot	43 recover	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 inquired	punct
46	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=0, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	inquire speech: other	past	David				of the LORD	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of lord=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	gerund	David not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pursue	shall	I			after this troop		vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after troop=Theme
4	overtake	shall	I	David				tree rules
5	answer speech: assert	past	Abiathar		Ahimelech			tree rules
6	pursue	infinitive						vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
7	overtake	shall	thou	David			surely property	tree rules
8	recover	shall	thou not said here	all			without fail	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=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

וַיִּשְׁאַ֨ל דָּוִ֤ד בַּֽיהוָה֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר אֶרְדֹּ֛ף אַחֲרֵ֥י הַגְּדוּד־הַזֶּ֖ה הַֽאַשִּׂגֶ֑נּוּ וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לוֹ֙ רְדֹ֔ף כִּֽי־הַשֵּׂ֥ג תַּשִּׂ֖יג וְהַצֵּ֥ל תַּצִּֽיל׃

1 Samuel 30:8: 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:857 of Mova's parse database.

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