1 Samuel 9:2 שְׁמוּאֵל א

Who acts: man, name, goodlier person, Saul · What happens: have, be, not be, name · To what, where: son, Saul, shoulders

This is 1 Samuel 9:2 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, goodlier person, Saul — and what happens in the verse to son, Saul, shoulders, 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.

וְלוֹ־הָיָ֨ה בֵ֜ן וּשְׁמ֤וֹ שָׁאוּל֙ בָּח֣וּר וָט֔וֹב וְאֵ֥ין אִ֛ישׁ מִבְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל ט֣וֹב מִמֶּ֑נּוּ מִשִּׁכְמ֣וֹ וָמַ֔עְלָה גָּבֹ֖הַּ מִכָּל־הָעָֽם׃

And he had a son, whose name was Saul, young and goodly, and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.

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	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	3 וֹ־	cc	and
2	ל	לְ	ADP	_	3 וֹ־	case	to
3	וֹ־	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root	him
4	הָיָ֨ה	הָיָה	AUX	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	3 וֹ־	cop	he belonged
5	בֵ֜ן	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	3 וֹ־	nsubj	a son
6	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	9 שָׁאוּל֙	cc	and
7	שְׁמ	שֵׁם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	9 שָׁאוּל֙	nsubj	name
8	֤וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 שְׁמ	nmod:poss	his
9	שָׁאוּל֙	שָׁאוּל	PROPN	_	3 וֹ־	conj	[was] Saul
10	בָּח֣וּר	בָּחוּר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	9 שָׁאוּל֙	appos	a young man
11	וָ	וְ	CCONJ	_	12 ט֔וֹב	cc	and
12	ט֔וֹב	טוֹב	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	10 בָּח֣וּר	conj	good
13	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	14 אֵ֥ין	cc	and
14	אֵ֥ין	אַיִן	ADV	_	3 וֹ־	conj	there [was] not
15	אִ֛ישׁ	אִישׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	14 אֵ֥ין	nsubj	a man
16	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	17 בְּנֵ֥י	case	of
17	בְּנֵ֥י	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	15 אִ֛ישׁ	nmod	the people
18	יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל	יִשְׂרָאֵל	PROPN	_	17 בְּנֵ֥י	compound:smixut	of Israel
19	ט֣וֹב	טוֹב	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	15 אִ֛ישׁ	amod	good
20	מִמּ	מִן	ADP	_	21 ֶ֑נּוּ	case	more
21	ֶ֑נּוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 ט֣וֹב	nmod	than him
22	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	23 שִּׁכְמ	case	from
23	שִּׁכְמ	שְׁכֶם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	28 גָּבֹ֖הַּ	obl	shoulder
24	֣וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 שִּׁכְמ	nmod:poss	his
25	וָ	וְ	CCONJ	_	26 מַ֔עְל	cc	and
26	מַ֔עְל	מַעַל	ADV	_	23 שִּׁכְמ	conj	upward
27	ָה	ה	X	_	26 מַ֔עְל	nmod	upwards
28	גָּבֹ֖הַּ	גָּבֹהַּ	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	3 וֹ־	parataxis	[he was] tall
29	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	30 כָּל־	case	more
30	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	28 גָּבֹ֖הַּ	nmod	than all
31	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	32 עָֽם	det	the
32	עָֽם	עַם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	30 כָּל־	compound:smixut	people
33	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	32 עָֽם	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
speech: narration
negation: yes

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	to whom, further (A2)	who makes it happen (AA)
הָיָה he belonged	qatal · qal	בֵן a son

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

וְלֵיהּ הֲוָה בַּר וּשְׁמֵיהּ שָׁאוּל עוּלֵים וְשַׁפִּיר וְלֵית גַבְרָא מִבְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל שַׁפִּיר מִנֵיהּ מִכַּתְפֵיהּ וּלְעֵלָא רָם מִכָּל עַמָא:

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 he had a son, whose name was Saul, young and goodly, and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.

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:180.

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