1 Samuel 31:8 · JPS 1917
And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
Who acts: Jordan, Philistines, Saul · What happens: come, pass, strip, find, fall · To what, where: morrow, slain, Saul, mount
This is 1 Samuel 31:8 · 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 (Jordan, Philistines, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 came | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pass | mark |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | xcomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 morrow | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 morrow | det |
| 8 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pass | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Philistines | det |
| 12 | Philistines | philistine | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 strip | mark |
| 15 | strip | strip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 came | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 slain | det |
| 17 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 strip | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 found | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 found | nsubj |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | advcl |
| 22 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 found | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sons | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sons | nmod:poss |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 sons | nummod |
| 26 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 Saul | conj |
| 27 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 found | xcomp |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 mount | case |
| 29 | mount | mount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fallen | obl |
| 30 | Gilboa | Gilboa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 mount | flat |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Jordan | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | Jordan not said here | the morrow | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on morrow=Location | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the Philistines | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | strip | to-infinitive | the Philistines not said here | the slain | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slain=Patient | ||||
| 5 | find | past | Philistines = philistine | Saul and Saul's three sons | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent saul=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fall | participle | Saul and Saul's three sons not said here | mount | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mount=Location |
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
וַֽיְהִי֙ מִֽמָּחֳרָ֔ת וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים לְפַשֵּׁ֖ט אֶת־הַחֲלָלִ֑ים וַֽיִּמְצְא֤וּ אֶת־שָׁאוּל֙ וְאֶת־שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת בָּנָ֔יו נֹפְלִ֖ים בְּהַ֥ר הַגִּלְבֹּֽעַ׃
1 Samuel 31:8: 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:889 of Mova's parse database.
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