1 Samuel 31:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

Then said Saul to his armour-bearer: 'Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and make a mock of me.' But his armour-bearer would not; for he was sore afraid.

Who acts: Saul, uncircumcised · What happens: say, draw, thrust, come, thrust through, make · To what, where: sword, me, mock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 31:4 · 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 (Saul, uncircumcised), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 bearer	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bearer	nmod:poss
6	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bearer	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 armour	punct
8	bearer	bearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 Draw	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 Draw	punct
11	Draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
12	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 sword	nmod:poss
13	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Draw	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thrust	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 thrust	cc
16	thrust	thrust	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 Draw	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 thrust	obj
18	through	through	ADP	_	19 therewith	case
19	therewith	therewith	ADV	_	16 thrust	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct
21	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	24 come	mark
22	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 uncircumcised	det
23	uncircumcised	uncircumcised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 come	nsubj
24	come	come	VERB	Mood=Sub VerbForm=Fin	11 Draw	advcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 thrust	cc
26	thrust	thrust	VERB	Mood=Sub VerbForm=Fin	24 come	conj
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 thrust	obj
28	through	through	ADP	_	26 thrust	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 make	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 make	cc
31	make	make	VERB	Mood=Sub VerbForm=Fin	24 come	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 mock	det
33	mock	mock	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 make	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 me	case
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 mock	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
38	But	but	CCONJ	_	43 would	cc
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 bearer	nmod:poss
40	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 bearer	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 armour	punct
42	bearer	bearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 would	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 would	advmod
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 afraid	punct
46	for	for	SCONJ	_	50 afraid	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 afraid	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 afraid	cop
49	sore	sore	ADV	_	50 afraid	advmod
50	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 would	advcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Saul		then	to Saul's armour bearer	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to bearer=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	draw	infinitive		thy sword			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
3	thrust	infinitive		me			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	come	infinitive	this uncircumcised				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	thrust through	infinitive	this uncircumcised not said here	me			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
6	make	infinitive	this uncircumcised not said here	a mock of me			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mock=Product
7	is	past	Saul			afraid, sore property	tree rules
8	mock			me			nom mock «act transitive»: of=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

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר שָׁאוּל֩ לְנֹשֵׂ֨א כֵלָ֜יו שְׁלֹ֥ף חַרְבְּךָ֣ ׀ וְדָקְרֵ֣נִי בָ֗הּ פֶּן־יָ֠בוֹאוּ הָעֲרֵלִ֨ים הָאֵ֤לֶּה וּדְקָרֻ֙נִי֙ וְהִתְעַלְּלוּ־בִ֔י וְלֹ֤א אָבָה֙ נֹשֵׂ֣א כֵלָ֔יו כִּ֥י יָרֵ֖א מְאֹ֑ד וַיִּקַּ֤ח שָׁאוּל֙ אֶת־הַחֶ֔רֶב וַיִּפֹּ֖ל עָלֶֽיהָ׃

1 Samuel 31:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

This verse in JPS 1917:

Then said Saul to his armour-bearer: 'Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and make a mock of me.' But his armour-bearer would not; for he was sore afraid.
Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell upon it.

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1SA:884 of Mova's parse database.

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