1 Samuel 17:9 שְׁמוּאֵל א

Who acts: champion, we, I, ye · What happens: be, fight, kill, prevail, serve · To what, where: me, servants, champion, us

This is 1 Samuel 17:9 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 — champion, we, I, ye — and what happens in the verse to me, servants, champion, 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.

אִם־יוּכַ֞ל לְהִלָּחֵ֤ם אִתִּי֙ וְהִכָּ֔נִי וְהָיִ֥ינוּ לָכֶ֖ם לַעֲבָדִ֑ים וְאִם־אֲנִ֤י אֽוּכַל־לוֹ֙ וְהִכִּיתִ֔יו וִהְיִ֤יתֶם לָ֙נוּ֙ לַעֲבָדִ֔ים וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֖ם אֹתָֽנוּ׃

If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.'

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	אִם־	אִם	SCONJ	_	2 יוּכַ֞ל	mark	if
2	יוּכַ֞ל	יָכֹל	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	15 עֲבָדִ֑ים	advcl	he will be able
3	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	4 הִלָּחֵ֤ם	case	to
4	הִלָּחֵ֤ם	לָחַם	VERB	HebBinyan=NIPHAL	2 יוּכַ֞ל	xcomp	fight
5	אִתּ	אֵת	ADP	_	6 ִי֙	case	with
6	ִי֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 הִלָּחֵ֤ם	obl	me
7	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	8 הִכּ	cc	and
8	הִכּ	נָכָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יוּכַ֞ל	conj	he
9	ָ֔נִי	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 הִכּ	obj	will strike me down
10	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	15 עֲבָדִ֑ים	cc	and
11	הָיִ֥ינוּ	הָיָה	AUX	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=1	15 עֲבָדִ֑ים	cop	we will become
12	ל	לְ	ADP	_	13 ָכֶ֖ם	case
13	ָכֶ֖ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 עֲבָדִ֑ים	obl	your
14	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	15 עֲבָדִ֑ים	case	(into)
15	עֲבָדִ֑ים	עֶבֶד	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	root	root	slaves
16	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	30 עֲבָדִ֔ים	cc	and
17	אִם־	אִם	SCONJ	_	19 אֽוּכַל־	mark	if
18	אֲנִ֤י	אֲנִי	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 אֽוּכַל־	nsubj	I
19	אֽוּכַל־	יָכֹל	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	30 עֲבָדִ֔ים	advcl	I will prevail
20	ל	לְ	ADP	_	21 וֹ֙	case	to
21	וֹ֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 אֽוּכַל־	obl	him
22	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	23 הִכִּיתִ֔י	cc	and
23	הִכִּיתִ֔י	נָכָה	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Sing Person=1	19 אֽוּכַל־	conj	I
24	ו	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 הִכִּיתִ֔י	obj	will strike him down
25	וִ	וְ	CCONJ	_	30 עֲבָדִ֔ים	cc	and
26	הְיִ֤יתֶם	הָיָה	AUX	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=2	30 עֲבָדִ֔ים	cop	you will become
27	ל	לְ	ADP	_	28 ָ֙נוּ֙	case
28	ָ֙נוּ֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 עֲבָדִ֔ים	obl	our
29	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	30 עֲבָדִ֔ים	case	(into)
30	עֲבָדִ֔ים	עֶבֶד	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	15 עֲבָדִ֑ים	conj	slaves
31	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	32 עֲבַדְתֶּ֖ם	cc	and
32	עֲבַדְתֶּ֖ם	עָבַד	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=2	30 עֲבָדִ֔ים	conj	you will serve
33	אֹת	אֵת	ADP	_	34 ָֽנוּ	case
34	ָֽנוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 עֲבַדְתֶּ֖ם	obj	us
35	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	34 ָֽנוּ	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
speech: inside a quote begun earlier
negation: no

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יוּכַל he will be able	yiqtol · qal
הִלָּחֵם fight	infinitive construct · niphal
הִכּ he	qatal · hiphil	ָנִי will strike me down
הָיִינוּ we will become	weqatal · qal
אֽוּכַל־ I will prevail	yiqtol · qal	אֲנִי I
הִכִּיתִי I	qatal · hiphil	ו will strike him down
הְיִיתֶם you will become	weqatal · qal
עֲבַדְתֶּם you will serve	weqatal · qal		ָֽנוּ us

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

אִם יִכּוּל לַאֲגָחָא קְרָבָא עִמִי וְיִקְטְלִינַנִי וּנְהֵי לְכוֹן לְעַבְדִין וְאִם אֲנָא אִכּוּל לֵיהּ וְאַקְטִלִינֵיהּ וּתְהוֹן לָנָא לְעַבְדִין וְתִפְלְחוּן יָתָנָא:

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.

If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.'

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:414.

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