1 Samuel 19:9 שְׁמוּאֵל א

Who acts: evil spirit, David · What happens: be, sit, play · To what, where: house

This is 1 Samuel 19:9 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 — evil spirit, David — and what happens in the verse to house, 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.

וַתְּהִי֩ ר֨וּחַ יְהוָ֤ה ׀ רָעָה֙ אֶל־שָׁא֔וּל וְהוּא֙ בְּבֵית֣וֹ יוֹשֵׁ֔ב וַחֲנִית֖וֹ בְּיָד֑וֹ וְדָוִ֖ד מְנַגֵּ֥ן בְּיָֽד׃

And an evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing with his hand.

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 תְּהִי֩	cc	and
2	תְּהִי֩	הָיָה	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	it was
3	ר֨וּחַ	רוּחַ	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 תְּהִי֩	nsubj	a spirit
4	יְהוָ֤ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	3 ר֨וּחַ	compound:smixut	of Yahweh
5	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	4 יְהוָ֤ה	punct
6	רָעָה֙	רַע	ADJ	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	3 ר֨וּחַ	amod	evil
7	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	8 שָׁא֔וּל	case	to
8	שָׁא֔וּל	שָׁאוּל	PROPN	_	2 תְּהִי֩	obl	Saul
9	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	14 יוֹשֵׁ֔ב	cc	and
10	הוּא֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 יוֹשֵׁ֔ב	nsubj	he
11	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	12 בֵית	case	in
12	בֵית	בַּיִת	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	14 יוֹשֵׁ֔ב	obl	house
13	֣וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 בֵית	nmod:poss	his
14	יוֹשֵׁ֔ב	יָשַׁב	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing	2 תְּהִי֩	conj	[was] sitting
15	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	19 יָד	cc	and
16	חֲנִית	חֲנִית	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	19 יָד	nsubj	spear
17	֖וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 חֲנִית	nmod:poss	his
18	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	19 יָד	case	[was] in
19	יָד	יָד	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 תְּהִי֩	conj	hand
20	֑וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 יָד	nmod:poss	his
21	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	23 מְנַגֵּ֥ן	cc	and
22	דָוִ֖ד	דָּוִד	PROPN	_	23 מְנַגֵּ֥ן	nsubj	David
23	מְנַגֵּ֥ן	נָגַן	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Sing	2 תְּהִי֩	conj	[was] playing
24	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	25 יָֽד	case	with
25	יָֽד	יָד	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 מְנַגֵּ֥ן	obl	hand
26	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	25 יָֽד	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)
תְּהִי it was	wayyiqtol · qal	רוּחַ a spirit
יוֹשֵׁב [was] sitting	participle active · qal	הוּא he
מְנַגֵּן [was] playing	participle active · piel	דָוִד David

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

וּשְׁרַת רוּחַ בִּישָׁא מִן קֳדָם יְיָ לְוַת שָׁאוּל וְהוּא בְּבֵיתֵיהּ יָתִיב וּמוּרְנִיתָא בִּידֵיהּ וְדָוִד מְנַגֵן בְּיָד:

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 an evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing with his hand.

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:502.

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