1 Kings 1:3 מְלָכִים א

Who acts: servants · What happens: seek, find, bring · To what, where: borders, Abishag, king

This is 1 Kings 1:3 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — servants — and what happens in the verse to borders, Abishag, king, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 22 chapters of 1 Kings on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

וַיְבַקְשׁוּ֙ נַעֲרָ֣ה יָפָ֔ה בְּכֹ֖ל גְּב֣וּל יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַֽיִּמְצְא֗וּ אֶת־אֲבִישַׁג֙ הַשּׁ֣וּנַמִּ֔ית וַיָּבִ֥אוּ אֹתָ֖הּ לַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

The tree

Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation	gloss
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 יְבַקְשׁוּ֙	cc	and
2	יְבַקְשׁוּ֙	בָּקַשׁ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they sought
3	נַעֲרָ֣ה	נַעֲרָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	2 יְבַקְשׁוּ֙	obj	a young woman
4	יָפָ֔ה	יָפֶה	ADJ	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	3 נַעֲרָ֣ה	amod	beautiful
5	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	6 כֹ֖ל	case	in
6	כֹ֖ל	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יְבַקְשׁוּ֙	obl	all
7	גְּב֣וּל	גְּבוּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	6 כֹ֖ל	compound:smixut	the territory
8	יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל	יִשְׂרָאֵל	PROPN	_	7 גְּב֣וּל	compound:smixut	of Israel
9	וַֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	10 יִּמְצְא֗וּ	cc	and
10	יִּמְצְא֗וּ	מָצָא	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	2 יְבַקְשׁוּ֙	conj	they found
11	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	12 אֲבִישַׁג֙	case	(et)
12	אֲבִישַׁג֙	אֲבִישַׁג	PROPN	_	10 יִּמְצְא֗וּ	obj	Abishag
13	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	14 שּׁ֣וּנַמִּ֔ית	det	the
14	שּׁ֣וּנַמִּ֔ית	שׁוּנַמִּי	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	12 אֲבִישַׁג֙	appos	Shunammite
15	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	16 יָּבִ֥אוּ	cc	and
16	יָּבִ֥אוּ	בּוֹא	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Plur Person=3	2 יְבַקְשׁוּ֙	conj	they brought
17	אֹת	אֵת	ADP	_	18 ָ֖הּ	case
18	ָ֖הּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 יָּבִ֥אוּ	obj	her
19	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	21 מֶּֽלֶךְ	case	to
20	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	21 מֶּֽלֶךְ	det	the
21	מֶּֽלֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	16 יָּבִ֥אוּ	obl	king
22	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	21 מֶּֽלֶךְ	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
speech: narration
negation: no

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יְבַקְשׁוּ they sought	wayyiqtol · piel		נַעֲרָה a young woman
יִּמְצְאוּ they found	wayyiqtol · qal		אֲבִישַׁג Abishag
יָּבִאוּ they brought	wayyiqtol · hiphil	ָהּ her

MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

Targum Jonathan

וּבְעוּ עוּלֶמְתָּא שַׁפִּירְתָּא בְּכֹל תְּחוֹם אַרְעָא דְיִשְׂרָאֵל וְאַשְׁכָּחוּ יַת אֲבִישַׁג דְמִן שׁוּנֵם וְאַיְתִיאוּ יָתָהּ לְמַלְכָּא:

The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

English, JPS 1917

Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. Tree, glosses and frames: MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew, CC BY 4.0; converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). Speech act: Mova's rules on the MACULA words (macula prag). Targum: Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

English: JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence wlc:1KI:2.

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