1 Samuel 30:15 · JPS 1917

And David said to him: 'Wilt thou bring me down to this troop?' And he said: 'Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this troop.'

Who acts: David, thou, Abiathar, I · What happens: say, bring down, swear, kill, deliver up · To what, where: Abiathar, me, troop, hands, thee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 30:15 · 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, thou, Abiathar, I), 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	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 bring	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 bring	punct
8	Wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	10 bring	aux
9	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 bring	nsubj
10	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 bring	obj
12	down	down	ADP	_	10 bring	compound:prt
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 troop	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 troop	det
15	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bring	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 bring	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 bring	punct
18	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 Swear	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 Swear	punct
23	Swear	swear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 said	ccomp
24	unto	unto	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 Swear	obl
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 God	case
27	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Swear	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 kill	punct
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 kill	mark
30	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	33 kill	nsubj
31	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	33 kill	aux
32	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	33 kill	cc:preconj
33	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 Swear	ccomp
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 kill	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 deliver	punct
36	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	37 deliver	cc
37	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 kill	conj
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 deliver	obj
39	up	up	ADP	_	37 deliver	compound:prt
40	into	into	ADP	_	42 hands	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 hands	det
42	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 deliver	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 master	case
44	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 master	nmod:poss
45	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 hands	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 bring	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 bring	cc
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 bring	nsubj
49	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 bring	aux
50	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 Swear	conj
51	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	50 bring	obj
52	down	down	ADP	_	50 bring	compound:prt
53	to	to	ADP	_	55 troop	case
54	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	55 troop	det
55	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 bring	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 Swear	punct
57	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 Swear	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	David		Abiathar			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	bring down	future	thou	me		this troop		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to troop=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	Abiathar					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	swear	infinitive					unto me; by God	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	kill	future	thou	me				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
6	deliver up	infinitive	thou not said here	me		the hands of my master		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
7	bring down	future	I	thee		this troop		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Theme to troop=Destination

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

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלָיו֙ דָּוִ֔ד הֲתוֹרִדֵ֖נִי אֶל־הַגְּד֣וּד הַזֶּ֑ה וַיֹּ֡אמֶר הִשָּׁבְעָה֩ לִּ֨י בֵֽאלֹהִ֜ים אִם־תְּמִיתֵ֗נִי וְאִם־תַּסְגִּרֵ֙נִי֙ בְּיַד־אֲדֹנִ֔י וְאוֹרִֽדְךָ֖ אֶל־הַגְּד֥וּד הַזֶּֽה׃

1 Samuel 30:15: 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:864 of Mova's parse database.

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