1 Samuel 17:2 שְׁמוּאֵל א

What happens: gather, pitch, set · To what, where: Saul, vale, battle, array

This is 1 Samuel 17:2 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: what happens in the verse to Saul, vale, battle, array, 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.

וְשָׁא֤וּל וְאִֽישׁ־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ נֶאֶסְפ֔וּ וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּעֵ֣מֶק הָאֵלָ֑ה עֵ֣מֶק הָאֵלָ֑ה וַיַּעַרְכ֥וּ מִלְחָמָ֖ה לִקְרַ֥את פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים׃

And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched in the vale of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.

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	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	6 נֶאֶסְפ֔וּ	cc	and
2	שָׁא֤וּל	שָׁאוּל	PROPN	_	6 נֶאֶסְפ֔וּ	nsubj	Saul
3	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	4 אִֽישׁ־	cc	and
4	אִֽישׁ־	אִישׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 שָׁא֤וּל	conj	the man
5	יִשְׂרָאֵל֙	יִשְׂרָאֵל	PROPN	_	4 אִֽישׁ־	compound:smixut	of Israel
6	נֶאֶסְפ֔וּ	אָסַף	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=NIPHAL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they were gathered
7	וַֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	8 יַּחֲנ֖וּ	cc	and
8	יַּחֲנ֖וּ	חָנָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	6 נֶאֶסְפ֔וּ	conj	they encamped
9	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	10 עֵ֣מֶק	case	in
10	עֵ֣מֶק	עֵמֶק	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	8 יַּחֲנ֖וּ	obl	the valley
11	הָאֵלָ֑ה	_	NOUN	_	10 עֵ֣מֶק	flat
12	עֵ֣מֶק	הַ	PROPN	_	10 עֵ֣מֶק	nmod	of (the) Elah
13	הָאֵלָ֑ה	_	PROPN	_	12 עֵ֣מֶק	flat:name
14	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	15 יַּעַרְכ֥וּ	cc	and
15	יַּעַרְכ֥וּ	עָרַךְ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	6 נֶאֶסְפ֔וּ	conj	they deployed
16	מִלְחָמָ֖ה	מִלְחָמָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	15 יַּעַרְכ֥וּ	obj	battle
17	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	18 קְרַ֥את	case	to
18	קְרַ֥את	קָרָא	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	15 יַּעַרְכ֥וּ	advcl	meet
19	פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים	פְּלִשְׁתִּי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	18 קְרַ֥את	obj	[the] Philistines
20	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	19 פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
נֶאֶסְפוּ they were gathered	qatal · niphal		שָׁאוּל Saul + אִֽישׁ־ the man
יַּחֲנוּ they encamped	wayyiqtol · qal	שָׁאוּל Saul + אִֽישׁ־ the man
יַּעַרְכוּ they deployed	wayyiqtol · qal	שָׁאוּל Saul + אִֽישׁ־ the man	וַ and
קְרַאת meet	infinitive construct · qal	שָׁאוּל Saul + אִֽישׁ־ the man	לִ to

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

וְשָׁאוּל וֶאֱנַשׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל אִתְכְּנִישׁוּ וּשְׁרוֹ בְּמֵישַׁר בּוּטְמָא וְסַדָרוּ קְרָבָא לָקֳדָמוּת פְּלִשְׁתָּאֵי:

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 and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched in the vale of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.

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:407.

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