1 Samuel 12:19 שְׁמוּאֵל א

Who acts: people, we · What happens: say, pray, not die, add, ask · To what, where: evil, king, us · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is 1 Samuel 12:19 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 — people, we — and what happens in the verse to evil, king, us, 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 כָל־הָעָ֜ם אֶל־שְׁמוּאֵ֗ל הִתְפַּלֵּ֧ל בְּעַד־עֲבָדֶ֛יךָ אֶל־יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ וְאַל־נָמ֑וּת כִּֽי־יָסַ֤פְנוּ עַל־כָּל־חַטֹּאתֵ֙ינוּ֙ רָעָ֔ה לִשְׁאֹ֥ל לָ֖נוּ מֶֽלֶךְ׃ס

And all the people said unto Samuel: 'Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not; for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a 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 יֹּאמְר֨וּ	cc	and
2	יֹּאמְר֨וּ	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they said
3	כָל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יֹּאמְר֨וּ	nsubj	all
4	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	5 עָ֜ם	det	the
5	עָ֜ם	עַם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	3 כָל־	compound:smixut	people
6	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	7 שְׁמוּאֵ֗ל	case	to
7	שְׁמוּאֵ֗ל	שְׁמוּאֵל	PROPN	_	2 יֹּאמְר֨וּ	obl	Samuel
8	הִתְפַּלֵּ֧ל	פָּלַל	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HITHPAEL Number=Sing Person=2	2 יֹּאמְר֨וּ	ccomp	pray
9	בְּעַד־	בַּעַד	ADP	_	10 עֲבָדֶ֛י	case	for
10	עֲבָדֶ֛י	עֶבֶד	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	8 הִתְפַּלֵּ֧ל	obl	servants
11	ךָ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 עֲבָדֶ֛י	nmod:poss	your
12	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	13 יְהוָ֥ה	case	to
13	יְהוָ֥ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	8 הִתְפַּלֵּ֧ל	obl	Yahweh
14	אֱלֹהֶ֖י	אֱלֹהִים	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	13 יְהוָ֥ה	appos	God
15	ךָ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 אֱלֹהֶ֖י	nmod:poss	your
16	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	18 נָמ֑וּת	cc	and
17	אַל־	אַל	ADV	_	18 נָמ֑וּת	advmod	not
18	נָמ֑וּת	מוּת	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=1	8 הִתְפַּלֵּ֧ל	conj	we will die
19	כִּֽי־	כִּי	SCONJ	_	20 יָסַ֤פְנוּ	mark	(dm)
20	יָסַ֤פְנוּ	יָסַף	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=1	8 הִתְפַּלֵּ֧ל	advcl	we have added
21	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	22 כָּל־	case	to
22	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	20 יָסַ֤פְנוּ	obl	all
23	חַטֹּאתֵ֙י	חַטָּאת	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Plur	22 כָּל־	compound:smixut	sins
24	נוּ֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 חַטֹּאתֵ֙י	nmod:poss	our
25	רָעָ֔ה	רָעָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	20 יָסַ֤פְנוּ	obj	an evil thing
26	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	27 שְׁאֹ֥ל	case	by
27	שְׁאֹ֥ל	שָׁאַל	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	20 יָסַ֤פְנוּ	xcomp	asking
28	ל	לְ	ADP	_	29 ָ֖נוּ	case	for
29	ָ֖נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 שְׁאֹ֥ל	obl	ourselves
30	מֶֽלֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	27 שְׁאֹ֥ל	obj	a king
31	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	30 מֶֽלֶךְ	punct
32	ס	ס	PUNCT	_	30 מֶֽלֶךְ	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	עָם people
הִתְפַּלֵּל pray	imperative · hithpael	שְׁמוּאֵל Samuel
not נָמוּת we will die	cohortative · qal	עֲבָדֶי servants
יָסַפְנוּ we have added	qatal · qal	עֲבָדֶי servants	רָעָה an evil thing
שְׁאֹל asking	infinitive construct · qal	עֲבָדֶי servants	מֶֽלֶךְ a king

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 כָּל עַמָא לִשְׁמוּאֵל צַלֵי עַל עַבְדָךְ קֳדָם יְיָ אֱלָהָךְ וְלָא נְמוּת אֲרֵי אוֹסִיפְנָא עַל כָּל חוֹבָנָא בִּישְׁתָא לְמִשְׁאַל לָנָא מַלְכָּא:

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 all the people said unto Samuel: 'Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not; for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a 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:1SA:266.

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