1 Samuel 15:15 שְׁמוּאֵל א

Who acts: Saul, bleating, people, we · What happens: say, bring, spare, sacrifice, destroy · To what, where: commandments, Amalekites, best, rest · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is 1 Samuel 15:15 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 — Saul, bleating, people, we — and what happens in the verse to commandments, Amalekites, best, rest, 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.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר שָׁא֜וּל מֵעֲמָלֵקִ֣י הֱבִיא֗וּם אֲשֶׁ֨ר חָמַ֤ל הָעָם֙ עַל־מֵיטַ֤ב הַצֹּאן֙ וְהַבָּקָ֔ר לְמַ֥עַן זְבֹ֖חַ לַיהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ וְאֶת־הַיּוֹתֵ֖ר הֶחֱרַֽמְנוּ׃ס

And Saul said: 'They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.'

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 יֹּ֨אמֶר	cc	and
2	יֹּ֨אמֶר	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he said
3	שָׁא֜וּל	שָׁאוּל	PROPN	_	2 יֹּ֨אמֶר	nsubj	Saul
4	מֵ	מִן	ADP	_	5 עֲמָלֵקִ֣י	case	from [the]
5	עֲמָלֵקִ֣י	עֲמָלֵקִי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	6 הֱבִיא֗וּ	obl	Amalekite[s]
6	הֱבִיא֗וּ	בּוֹא	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Plur Person=3	2 יֹּ֨אמֶר	ccomp	people
7	ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 הֱבִיא֗וּ	obj	brought them
8	אֲשֶׁ֨ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	9 חָמַ֤ל	mark	that
9	חָמַ֤ל	חָמַל	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	6 הֱבִיא֗וּ	parataxis	it had compassion
10	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	11 עָם֙	det	the
11	עָם֙	עַם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	9 חָמַ֤ל	nsubj	people
12	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	13 מֵיטַ֤ב	case	on
13	מֵיטַ֤ב	מֵיטָב	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	9 חָמַ֤ל	obl	the best
14	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	15 צֹּאן֙	det	of
15	צֹּאן֙	צֹאן	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 מֵיטַ֤ב	compound:smixut	the sheep
16	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	18 בָּקָ֔ר	cc	and
17	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	18 בָּקָ֔ר	det	the
18	בָּקָ֔ר	בָּקָר	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 צֹּאן֙	conj	cattle
19	לְמַ֥עַן	לְמַעַן	SCONJ	_	20 זְבֹ֖חַ	mark	so as
20	זְבֹ֖חַ	זָבַח	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	9 חָמַ֤ל	advcl	to sacrifice [them]
21	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	22 יהוָ֣ה	case	to
22	יהוָ֣ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	20 זְבֹ֖חַ	obl	Yahweh
23	אֱלֹהֶ֑י	אֱלֹהִים	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	22 יהוָ֣ה	appos	God
24	ךָ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 אֱלֹהֶ֑י	nmod:poss	your
25	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	29 הֶחֱרַֽמְנוּ	cc	and
26	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	28 יּוֹתֵ֖ר	case	(et)
27	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	28 יּוֹתֵ֖ר	det	the
28	יּוֹתֵ֖ר	יֹותֵר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	29 הֶחֱרַֽמְנוּ	obj	rest
29	הֶחֱרַֽמְנוּ	חָרַם	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Plur Person=1	6 הֱבִיא֗וּ	conj	we totally destroyed
30	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	29 הֶחֱרַֽמְנוּ	punct
31	ס	ס	PUNCT	_	29 הֶחֱרַֽמְנוּ	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
speech: a frame and its quote
negation: no
the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	who makes it happen (AA)
יֹּאמֶר he said	wayyiqtol · qal	שָׁאוּל Saul
הֱבִיאוּ people	qatal · hiphil	ם brought them
חָמַל it had compassion	qatal · qal	עָם people
זְבֹחַ to sacrifice [them]	infinitive construct · qal	עָם people
הֶחֱרַֽמְנוּ we totally destroyed	qatal · hiphil	יּוֹתֵר rest	שָׁאוּל Saul + עָם people

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

וַאֲמַר שָׁאוּל מֵעַמַלְקָאָה אַיְתִיאוּנוּן דְחַס עַמָא עַל שְׁפַר עָנָא וְתוֹרֵי בְּדִיל לְדַבָּחָא קֳדָם יְיָ אֱלָהָךְ וְיַת שְׁאַר מוֹתָרָא גַמַרְנָא:

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 Saul said: 'They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.'

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:362.

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