1 Samuel 8:6 שְׁמוּאֵל א

Who acts: thing, sons, Samuel · What happens: displease, say, give, judge, pray · To what, where: Samuel, king, us · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is 1 Samuel 8:6 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 — thing, sons, Samuel — and what happens in the verse to Samuel, king, 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.

וַיֵּ֤רַע הַדָּבָר֙ בְּעֵינֵ֣י שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר אָמְר֔וּ תְּנָה־לָּ֥נוּ מֶ֖לֶךְ לְשָׁפְטֵ֑נוּ וַיִּתְפַּלֵּ֥ל שְׁמוּאֵ֖ל אֶל־יְהוָֽה׃פ

But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said: 'Give us a king to judge us.' And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.

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 יֵּ֤רַע	cc	and
2	יֵּ֤רַע	רָעַע	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	it was displeasing
3	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	4 דָּבָר֙	det	the
4	דָּבָר֙	דָּבָר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יֵּ֤רַע	nsubj	matter
5	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	6 עֵינֵ֣י	case	in
6	עֵינֵ֣י	עַיִן	NOUN	Number=Dual	2 יֵּ֤רַע	obl	the eyes
7	שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל	שְׁמוּאֵל	PROPN	_	6 עֵינֵ֣י	compound:smixut	of Samuel
8	כַּ	כְּ	ADP	_	2 יֵּ֤רַע	obl	when
9	אֲשֶׁ֣ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	10 אָמְר֔וּ	mark
10	אָמְר֔וּ	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	8 כַּ	acl:relcl	they said
11	תְּנ	נָתַן	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=2	10 אָמְר֔וּ	ccomp	give
12	ָה־	ה	X	_	11 תְּנ	nmod
13	לּ	לְ	ADP	_	14 ָ֥נוּ	case	to
14	ָ֥נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 תְּנ	obl	us
15	מֶ֖לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	11 תְּנ	obj	a king
16	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	17 שָׁפְט	case	to
17	שָׁפְט	שָׁפַט	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	11 תְּנ	advcl	judge
18	ֵ֑נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 שָׁפְט	obj	us
19	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	20 יִּתְפַּלֵּ֥ל	cc	and
20	יִּתְפַּלֵּ֥ל	פָּלַל	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HITHPAEL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יֵּ֤רַע	conj	he prayed
21	שְׁמוּאֵ֖ל	שְׁמוּאֵל	PROPN	_	20 יִּתְפַּלֵּ֥ל	nsubj	Samuel
22	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	23 יְהוָֽה	case	to
23	יְהוָֽה	יהוה	PROPN	_	20 יִּתְפַּלֵּ֥ל	obl	Yahweh
24	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	23 יְהוָֽה	punct
25	פ	פ	PUNCT	_	23 יְהוָֽה	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)
יֵּרַע it was displeasing	wayyiqtol · qal	דָּבָר matter
אָמְרוּ they said	qatal · qal		תְּנ give
תְּנ give	imperative · qal	שְׁמוּאֵל of Samuel	מֶלֶךְ a king
שָׁפְט judge	infinitive construct · qal	מֶלֶךְ a king	ֵנוּ us
יִּתְפַּלֵּל he prayed	wayyiqtol · hithpael	שְׁמוּאֵל Samuel

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

וּבְאֵישׁ פִּתְגָמָא בְּעֵינֵי שְׁמוּאֵל כַּד אַמַרוּ מַנֵי לָנָא מַלְכָּא לְמִדַיְנָנָא וְצַלֵי שְׁמוּאֵל קֳדָם יְיָ:

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.

But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said: 'Give us a king to judge us.' And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.

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:162.

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