1 Samuel 1:1 שְׁמוּאֵל א

Who acts: certain man, name, man · What happens: be, name · To what, where: Elkanah

This is 1 Samuel 1:1 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 — certain man, name, man — and what happens in the verse to Elkanah, 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 31 chapters of 1 Samuel on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

וַיְהִי֩ אִ֨ישׁ אֶחָ֜ד מִן־הָרָמָתַ֛יִם צוֹפִ֖ים מֵהַ֣ר אֶפְרָ֑יִם וּשְׁמ֡וֹ אֶ֠לְקָנָה בֶּן־יְרֹחָ֧ם בֶּן־אֱלִיה֛וּא בֶּן־תֹּ֥חוּ בֶן־צ֖וּף אֶפְרָתִֽי׃

NOW THERE was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

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 יְהִי֩	cc	and
2	יְהִי֩	הָיָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he was
3	אִ֨ישׁ	אִישׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יְהִי֩	nsubj	a man
4	אֶחָ֜ד	אֶחָד	NUM	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	3 אִ֨ישׁ	nummod	one
5	מִן־	מִן	ADP	_	7 רָמָתַ֛יִם	case	from
6	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	7 רָמָתַ֛יִם	det	(the)
7	רָמָתַ֛יִם	רָמָה	PROPN	_	2 יְהִי֩	obl	Ramathaim
8	צוֹפִ֖ים	צפה	PROPN	_	7 רָמָתַ֛יִם	conj	Zophim
9	מֵ	מִן	ADP	_	10 הַ֣ר	case	from
10	הַ֣ר	הַר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	7 רָמָתַ֛יִם	nmod	the hill country
11	אֶפְרָ֑יִם	אֶפְרַיִם	PROPN	_	10 הַ֣ר	compound:smixut	of Ephraim
12	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	15 אֶ֠לְקָנָה	cc	and
13	שְׁמ	שֵׁם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	15 אֶ֠לְקָנָה	nsubj	name
14	֡וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 שְׁמ	nmod:poss	his
15	אֶ֠לְקָנָה	אֶלְקָנָה	PROPN	_	2 יְהִי֩	conj	[was] Elkanah
16	בֶּן־	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	15 אֶ֠לְקָנָה	appos	the son
17	יְרֹחָ֧ם	יְרֹחָם	PROPN	_	16 בֶּן־	compound:smixut	of Jeroham
18	בֶּן־	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	17 יְרֹחָ֧ם	appos	the son
19	אֱלִיה֛וּא	אֱלִיהוּא	PROPN	_	18 בֶּן־	compound:smixut	of Elihu
20	בֶּן־	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	19 אֱלִיה֛וּא	appos	the son
21	תֹּ֥חוּ	תֹּחוּ	PROPN	_	20 בֶּן־	compound:smixut	of Tohu
22	בֶן־	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	21 תֹּ֥חוּ	appos	the son
23	צ֖וּף	צוּף	PROPN	_	22 בֶן־	compound:smixut	of Zuph
24	אֶפְרָתִֽי	אֶפְרָתִי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	23 צ֖וּף	appos	an Ephrathite
25	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	24 אֶפְרָתִֽי	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	to whom, further (A2)	who makes it happen (AA)
יְהִי he was	wayyiqtol · qal	אִישׁ a man

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

וַהֲוָה גַבְרָא חַד מֵרָמָתָא מִתַּלְמִידֵי נְבִיאַיָא מִטוּרָא דְבֵית אֶפְרָיִם וּשְׁמֵיהּ אֶלְקָנָה בַּר יְרֹחָם בַּר אֱלִיהוּא בַּר תּוֹחוּ בַר צוּף גַבְרָא פַּלֵיג חוּלַק בְּקוּדְשַׁיָא בְּטוּרָא דְבֵית אֶפְרָיִם:

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.

NOW THERE was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

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:1SA:0.

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