1 Samuel 11:3 שְׁמוּאֵל א

Who acts: elders, we, none, seven days · What happens: say, give, send, be, deliver, come out · To what, where: respite, us, messengers · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is 1 Samuel 11:3 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 — elders, we, none, seven days — and what happens in the verse to respite, us, messengers, 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.

וַיֹּאמְר֨וּ אֵלָ֜יו זִקְנֵ֣י יָבֵ֗ישׁ הֶ֤רֶף לָ֙נוּ֙ שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֔ים וְנִשְׁלְחָה֙ מַלְאָכִ֔ים בְּכֹ֖ל גְּב֣וּל יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְאִם־אֵ֥ין מוֹשִׁ֛יעַ אֹתָ֖נוּ וְיָצָ֥אנוּ אֵלֶֽיךָ׃

And the elders of Jabesh said unto him: 'Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the borders of Israel; and then, if there be none to deliver us, we will come out to thee.'

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 יֹּאמְר֨וּ	cc	and
2	יֹּאמְר֨וּ	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they said
3	אֵלָ֜י	אֶל	ADP	_	4 ו	case	to
4	ו	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 יֹּאמְר֨וּ	obl	him
5	זִקְנֵ֣י	זָקֵן	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	2 יֹּאמְר֨וּ	nsubj	the elders
6	יָבֵ֗ישׁ	יָבֵישׁ	PROPN	_	5 זִקְנֵ֣י	compound:smixut	of Jabesh
7	הֶ֤רֶף	רָפָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Sing Person=2	2 יֹּאמְר֨וּ	ccomp	refrain
8	ל	לְ	ADP	_	9 ָ֙נוּ֙	case	to
9	ָ֙נוּ֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 הֶ֤רֶף	obl	us
10	שִׁבְעַ֣ת	שֶׁבַע	NUM	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	11 יָמִ֔ים	nummod	seven
11	יָמִ֔ים	יוֹם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	7 הֶ֤רֶף	obl	days
12	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	13 נִשְׁלְחָה֙	cc	so
13	נִשְׁלְחָה֙	שָׁלַח	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=1	7 הֶ֤רֶף	conj	that we may send
14	מַלְאָכִ֔ים	מַלְאָךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	13 נִשְׁלְחָה֙	obj	messengers
15	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	16 כֹ֖ל	case	in
16	כֹ֖ל	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	13 נִשְׁלְחָה֙	obl	all
17	גְּב֣וּל	גְּבוּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	16 כֹ֖ל	compound:smixut	the territory
18	יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל	יִשְׂרָאֵל	PROPN	_	17 גְּב֣וּל	compound:smixut	of Israel
19	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	26 יָצָ֥אנוּ	cc	and
20	אִם־	אִם	SCONJ	_	21 אֵ֥ין	mark	if
21	אֵ֥ין	אַיִן	ADV	_	26 יָצָ֥אנוּ	advcl	there [is] not
22	מוֹשִׁ֛יעַ	יָשַׁע	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Sing	21 אֵ֥ין	nsubj	[one who] delivers
23	אֹת	אֵת	ADP	_	24 ָ֖נוּ	case
24	ָ֖נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 מוֹשִׁ֛יעַ	obj	us
25	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	26 יָצָ֥אנוּ	cc	and
26	יָצָ֥אנוּ	יָצָא	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=1	7 הֶ֤רֶף	conj	we will come out
27	אֵלֶֽי	אֶל	ADP	_	28 ךָ	case	to
28	ךָ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 יָצָ֥אנוּ	obl	you
29	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	28 ךָ	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
speech: a frame and its quote
negation: yes
the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יֹּאמְרוּ they said	wayyiqtol · qal	זִקְנֵי the elders
הֶרֶף refrain	imperative · hiphil
נִשְׁלְחָה that we may send	cohortative · qal	זִקְנֵי the elders + יָבֵישׁ of Jabesh	מַלְאָכִים messengers
מוֹשִׁיעַ [one who] delivers	participle active · hiphil		ָנוּ us
not יָצָאנוּ we will come out	weqatal · qal	זִקְנֵי the elders + יָבֵישׁ of Jabesh

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

וַאֲמַרוּ לֵיהּ סָבֵי יָבֵשׁ אוֹרִיךְ לָנָא שַׁבְעָא יוֹמִין וְנִשְׁלַח אִזְגַדִין בְּכָל תְּחוּם יִשְׂרָאֵל וְאִם לֵית דְפָרִיק יָתָנָא וְנִפּוֹק לְוָתָךְ:

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.

And the elders of Jabesh said unto him: 'Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the borders of Israel; and then, if there be none to deliver us, we will come out to thee.'

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:235.

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