1 Samuel 27:5 שְׁמוּאֵל א

Who acts: David, I, eyes, servant · What happens: say, find, let, give, dwell · To what, where: favour, eyes, place, me, royal city · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is 1 Samuel 27:5 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 — David, I, eyes, servant — and what happens in the verse to favour, eyes, place, me, royal city, 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 דָּוִ֜ד אֶל־אָכִ֗ישׁ אִם־נָא֩ מָצָ֨אתִי חֵ֤ן בְּעֵינֶ֙יךָ֙ יִתְּנוּ־לִ֣י מָק֗וֹם בְּאַחַ֛ת עָרֵ֥י הַשָּׂדֶ֖ה וְאֵ֣שְׁבָה שָּׁ֑ם וְלָ֨מָּה יֵשֵׁ֧ב עַבְדְּךָ֛ בְּעִ֥יר הַמַּמְלָכָ֖ה עִמָּֽךְ׃

And David said unto Achish: 'If now I have found favour in thine eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there; for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?'

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	דָּוִ֜ד	דָּוִד	PROPN	_	2 יֹּ֨אמֶר	nsubj	David
4	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	5 אָכִ֗ישׁ	case	to
5	אָכִ֗ישׁ	אָכִישׁ	PROPN	_	2 יֹּ֨אמֶר	obl	Achish
6	אִם־	אִם	SCONJ	_	8 מָצָ֨אתִי	mark	if
7	נָא֩	נָא	INTJ	_	8 מָצָ֨אתִי	discourse	please
8	מָצָ֨אתִי	מָצָא	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	13 יִתְּנוּ־	advcl	I have found
9	חֵ֤ן	חֵן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	8 מָצָ֨אתִי	obj	favor
10	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	11 עֵינֶ֙י	case	in
11	עֵינֶ֙י	עַיִן	NOUN	Number=Dual	8 מָצָ֨אתִי	obl	eyes
12	ךָ֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 עֵינֶ֙י	nmod:poss	your
13	יִתְּנוּ־	נָתַן	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	2 יֹּ֨אמֶר	ccomp	let people give
14	ל	לְ	ADP	_	15 ִ֣י	case	to
15	ִ֣י	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 יִתְּנוּ־	obl	me
16	מָק֗וֹם	מָקוֹם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	13 יִתְּנוּ־	obj	a place
17	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	19 עָרֵ֥י	case	in
18	אַחַ֛ת	אֶחָד	NUM	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	19 עָרֵ֥י	nummod	one
19	עָרֵ֥י	עִיר	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Plur	13 יִתְּנוּ־	obl	of the cities
20	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	21 שָּׂדֶ֖ה	det	of
21	שָּׂדֶ֖ה	שָׂדֶה	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	19 עָרֵ֥י	compound:smixut	the field
22	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	23 אֵ֣שְׁבָה	cc	so
23	אֵ֣שְׁבָה	יָשַׁב	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	13 יִתְּנוּ־	conj	that I may dwell
24	שָּׁ֑ם	שָׁם	ADV	_	23 אֵ֣שְׁבָה	advmod	there
25	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	28 יֵשֵׁ֧ב	cc	and
26	לָ֨	לָמָה	ADP	_	27 מָּה	case
27	מָּה	מָה	PRON	PronType=Int	28 יֵשֵׁ֧ב	obl	why?
28	יֵשֵׁ֧ב	יָשַׁב	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	13 יִתְּנוּ־	conj	will he dwell
29	עַבְדּ	עֶבֶד	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	28 יֵשֵׁ֧ב	nsubj	servant
30	ְךָ֛	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 עַבְדּ	nmod:poss	your
31	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	32 עִ֥יר	case	in
32	עִ֥יר	עִיר	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	28 יֵשֵׁ֧ב	obl	the city
33	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	34 מַּמְלָכָ֖ה	det	of (the)
34	מַּמְלָכָ֖ה	מַמְלָכָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	32 עִ֥יר	compound:smixut	royalty
35	עִמּ	עִם	ADP	_	36 ָֽךְ	case	with
36	ָֽךְ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 יֵשֵׁ֧ב	obl	you
37	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	36 ָֽךְ	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יֹּאמֶר he said	wayyiqtol · qal	דָּוִד David
מָצָאתִי I have found	qatal · qal	דָּוִד David	חֵן favor
יִתְּנוּ־ let people give	jussive · qal		מָקוֹם a place
אֵשְׁבָה that I may dwell	cohortative · qal	דָּוִד David
יֵשֵׁב will he dwell	yiqtol · qal	עַבְדּ servant

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 דָוִד לְאָכִישׁ אִם כְּעַן אַשְׁכָּחֵית רַחֲמִין בְּעֵינָךְ יִתְּנוּן לִי אֲתַר בַּחֲדָא מִן קִרְוֵי חַקְלָא וְאֵתֵיב תַּמָן וּלְמָא יְתֵיב עַבְדָךְ בְּקִירְוַת מַלְכוּתָא עִמָךְ:

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 David said unto Achish: 'If now I have found favour in thine eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there; for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?'

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:723.

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