1 Samuel 31:9 · JPS 1917

And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry the tidings unto the house of their idols, and to the people.

Who acts: Philistines · What happens: cut off, strip off, send, carry · To what, where: head, armour, land, tidings

This is 1 Samuel 31:9 · 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 (Philistines), 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 cut	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cut	nsubj
3	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 cut	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stripped	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stripped	cc
9	stripped	strip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 stripped	compound:prt
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 armour	nmod:poss
12	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stripped	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sent	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sent	cc
15	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 land	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 land	det
18	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sent	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Philistines	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Philistines	det
21	Philistines	philistine	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 land	nmod
22	round	round	ADV	_	23 about	advmod
23	about	about	ADV	_	15 sent	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 carry	punct
25	to	to	PART	_	26 carry	mark
26	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 sent	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tidings	det
28	tidings	tiding	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 carry	obj
29	unto	unto	ADP	_	31 house	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 house	det
31	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carry	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 idols	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 idols	nmod:poss
34	idols	idol	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 house	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 people	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 people	cc
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 people	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 people	det
39	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 house	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cut off	past	Philistines = philistine	Saul's head			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
2	strip off	past	Philistines = philistine not said here	Saul's armour			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armour=Patient
3	send	past	Philistines = philistine not said here		the land of the Philistines	about property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	carry	to-infinitive	Philistines = philistine not said here	the tidings		unto the house of Philistines's idols and the people	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiding=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

וַֽיִּכְרְתוּ֙ אֶת־רֹאשׁ֔וֹ וַיַּפְשִׁ֖יטוּ אֶת־כֵּלָ֑יו וַיְשַׁלְּח֨וּ בְאֶֽרֶץ־פְּלִשְׁתִּ֜ים סָבִ֗יב לְבַשֵּׂ֛ר בֵּ֥ית עֲצַבֵּיהֶ֖ם וְאֶת־הָעָֽם׃

1 Samuel 31:9: 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:890 of Mova's parse database.

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