1 Samuel 24:3 שְׁמוּאֵל א

Who acts: Saul · What happens: take, choose, go, seek · To what, where: thousand chosen men, Israel, David

This is 1 Samuel 24:3 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 — and what happens in the verse to thousand chosen men, Israel, David, 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.

וַיִּקַּ֣ח שָׁא֗וּל שְׁלֹ֧שֶׁת אֲלָפִ֛ים אִ֥ישׁ בָּח֖וּר מִכָּל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיֵּ֗לֶךְ לְבַקֵּ֤שׁ אֶת־דָּוִד֙ וַֽאֲנָשָׁ֔יו עַל־פְּנֵ֖י צוּרֵ֥י הַיְּעֵלִֽים׃

Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.

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 יִּקַּ֣ח	cc	and
2	יִּקַּ֣ח	לָקַח	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he took
3	שָׁא֗וּל	שָׁאוּל	PROPN	_	2 יִּקַּ֣ח	nsubj	Saul
4	שְׁלֹ֧שֶׁת	שָׁלֹשׁ	NUM	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	6 אִ֥ישׁ	nummod	three
5	אֲלָפִ֛ים	אֶלֶף	NUM	Number=Plur	4 שְׁלֹ֧שֶׁת	flat	thousand(s)
6	אִ֥ישׁ	אִישׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יִּקַּ֣ח	obj	man
7	בָּח֖וּר	בָּחַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing	6 אִ֥ישׁ	acl:relcl	chosen
8	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	9 כָּל־	case	from
9	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	7 בָּח֖וּר	obl	all
10	יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל	יִשְׂרָאֵל	PROPN	_	9 כָּל־	compound:smixut	Israel
11	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	12 יֵּ֗לֶךְ	cc	and
12	יֵּ֗לֶךְ	הלך	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יִּקַּ֣ח	conj	he went
13	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	14 בַקֵּ֤שׁ	case	to
14	בַקֵּ֤שׁ	בָּקַשׁ	VERB	HebBinyan=PIEL	12 יֵּ֗לֶךְ	advcl	seek
15	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	16 דָּוִד֙	case	(et)
16	דָּוִד֙	דָּוִד	PROPN	_	14 בַקֵּ֤שׁ	obj	David
17	וַֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	18 אֲנָשָׁ֔י	cc	and
18	אֲנָשָׁ֔י	אִישׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	16 דָּוִד֙	conj	men
19	ו	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 אֲנָשָׁ֔י	nmod:poss	his
20	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	21 פְּנֵ֖י	case	on
21	פְּנֵ֖י	פָּנֶה	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 בַקֵּ֤שׁ	obl	the face
22	צוּרֵ֥י	צוּר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	21 פְּנֵ֖י	compound:smixut	of the rocks
23	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	24 יְּעֵלִֽים	det	of
24	יְּעֵלִֽים	יָעֵל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	22 צוּרֵ֥י	compound:smixut	the mountain goats
25	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	24 יְּעֵלִֽים	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יִּקַּח he took	wayyiqtol · qal	שָׁאוּל Saul	אִישׁ man
בָּחוּר chosen	participle passive · qal		אִישׁ man
יֵּלֶךְ he went	wayyiqtol · qal	שָׁאוּל Saul
בַקֵּשׁ seek	infinitive construct · piel	שָׁאוּל Saul	דָּוִד David + אֲנָשָׁי men

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

וּדְבַר שָׁאוּל תְּלָתָא אַלְפִין גְבַר עוּלֵים מִכָּל יִשְׂרָאֵל וַאֲזַל לְמִבְעֵי יַת דָוִד וְגַבְרוֹהִי עַל אַפֵּי שְׁקִיפֵי כֵיפַיָא:

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.

Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.

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:629.

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