1 Samuel 9:1 שְׁמוּאֵל א

Who acts: man, name, Kish · What happens: be, name · To what, where: Kish

This is 1 Samuel 9:1 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 — man, name, Kish — and what happens in the verse to Kish, 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.

וַֽיְהִי־אִ֣ישׁ מִבִּנְיָמִ֗יןוּ֠שְׁמוֹ קִ֣ישׁ בֶּן־אֲבִיאֵ֞ל בֶּן־צְר֧וֹר בֶּן־בְּכוֹרַ֛ת בֶּן־אֲפִ֖יחַ בֶּן־אִ֣ישׁ יְמִינִ֑י גִּבּ֖וֹר חָֽיִל׃

Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valour.

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	וַֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 יְהִי־	cc	and
2	יְהִי־	הָיָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he was
3	אִ֣ישׁ	אִישׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יְהִי־	nsubj	a man
4	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	5 בִּנְיָמִ֗ין	case	from
5	בִּנְיָמִ֗ין	בִּנְיָמִן	PROPN	_	3 אִ֣ישׁ	nmod	Benjamin
6	וּ֠	וְ	CCONJ	_	9 קִ֣ישׁ	cc	and
7	שְׁמ	שֵׁם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	9 קִ֣ישׁ	nsubj	name
8	וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 שְׁמ	nmod:poss	his
9	קִ֣ישׁ	קִישׁ	PROPN	_	2 יְהִי־	conj	[was] Kish
10	בֶּן־	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	9 קִ֣ישׁ	appos	the son
11	אֲבִיאֵ֞ל	אֲבִיאֵל	PROPN	_	10 בֶּן־	compound:smixut	of Abiel
12	בֶּן־	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	11 אֲבִיאֵ֞ל	appos	the son
13	צְר֧וֹר	צְרוֹר	PROPN	_	12 בֶּן־	compound:smixut	of Zeror
14	בֶּן־	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	13 צְר֧וֹר	appos	the son
15	בְּכוֹרַ֛ת	בְּכוֹרַת	PROPN	_	14 בֶּן־	compound:smixut	of Becorath
16	בֶּן־	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	15 בְּכוֹרַ֛ת	appos	the son
17	אֲפִ֖יחַ	אֲפִיחַ	PROPN	_	16 בֶּן־	compound:smixut	of Aphiah
18	בֶּן־	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	17 אֲפִ֖יחַ	appos	a son
19	אִ֣ישׁ	אִישׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	18 בֶּן־	compound:smixut	of a man
20	יְמִינִ֑י	יְמִינִי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	19 אִ֣ישׁ	appos	a Jaminite
21	גִּבּ֖וֹר	גִּבּוֹר	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	9 קִ֣ישׁ	appos	a mighty [man]
22	חָֽיִל	חַיִל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	21 גִּבּ֖וֹר	compound:smixut	of wealth
23	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	22 חָֽיִל	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	to whom, further (A2)	who makes it happen (AA)
יְהִי־ he was	wayyiqtol · qal	אִישׁ a man

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

וַהֲוָה גַבְרָא מִשִׁבְטָא דְבֵית בִּנְיָמִין וּשְׁמֵיהּ קִישׁ בַּר אֲבִיאֵל בַּר צְרוֹר בַּר בְּכוֹרַת בַּר אֲפִיחַ בַּר גַבְרָא מִשִׁבְטָא דְבֵית בִּנְיָמִן גִבַּר חֵילָא:

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.

Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valour.

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:179.

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