1 Samuel 9:3 שְׁמוּאֵל א

Who acts: Kish · What happens: lose, say, take, arise, go, seek · To what, where: asses, Saul, one · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is 1 Samuel 9:3 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 — Kish — and what happens in the verse to asses, Saul, one, 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.

וַתֹּאבַ֙דְנָה֙ הָאֲתֹנ֔וֹת לְקִ֖ישׁ אֲבִ֣י שָׁא֑וּל וַיֹּ֨אמֶר קִ֜ישׁ אֶל־שָׁא֣וּל בְּנ֗וֹ קַח־נָ֤א אִתְּךָ֙ אֶת־אַחַ֣ד מֵֽהַנְּעָרִ֔ים וְק֣וּם לֵ֔ךְ בַּקֵּ֖שׁ אֶת־הָאֲתֹנֹֽת׃

Now the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son: 'Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.'

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 תֹּאבַ֙דְנָה֙	cc	and
2	תֹּאבַ֙דְנָה֙	אָבַד	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they were lost
3	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	4 אֲתֹנ֔וֹת	det	the
4	אֲתֹנ֔וֹת	אָתוֹן	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Plur	2 תֹּאבַ֙דְנָה֙	nsubj	she-asses
5	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	6 קִ֖ישׁ	case	of
6	קִ֖ישׁ	קִישׁ	PROPN	_	4 אֲתֹנ֔וֹת	nmod	Kish
7	אֲבִ֣י	אָב	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	6 קִ֖ישׁ	appos	the father
8	שָׁא֑וּל	שָׁאוּל	PROPN	_	7 אֲבִ֣י	compound:smixut	of Saul
9	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	10 יֹּ֨אמֶר	cc	and
10	יֹּ֨אמֶר	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 תֹּאבַ֙דְנָה֙	conj	he said
11	קִ֜ישׁ	קִישׁ	PROPN	_	10 יֹּ֨אמֶר	nsubj	Kish
12	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	13 שָׁא֣וּל	case	to
13	שָׁא֣וּל	שָׁאוּל	PROPN	_	10 יֹּ֨אמֶר	obl	Saul
14	בְּנ	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	13 שָׁא֣וּל	appos	son
15	֗וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 בְּנ	nmod:poss	his
16	קַח־	לָקַח	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=2	10 יֹּ֨אמֶר	ccomp	take
17	נָ֤א	נָא	INTJ	_	16 קַח־	discourse	please
18	אִתּ	אֵת	ADP	_	19 ְךָ֙	case	with
19	ְךָ֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 קַח־	obl	you
20	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	21 אַחַ֣ד	case	(et)
21	אַחַ֣ד	אֶחָד	NUM	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	16 קַח־	obj	one
22	מֵֽ	מִן	ADP	_	24 נְּעָרִ֔ים	case	of
23	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	24 נְּעָרִ֔ים	det	the young
24	נְּעָרִ֔ים	נַעַר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	21 אַחַ֣ד	nmod	men
25	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	26 ק֣וּם	cc	and
26	ק֣וּם	קוּם	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=2	16 קַח־	conj	arise
27	לֵ֔ךְ	הלך	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=2	26 ק֣וּם	parataxis	go
28	בַּקֵּ֖שׁ	בָּקַשׁ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Sing Person=2	26 ק֣וּם	parataxis	seek
29	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	31 אֲתֹנֹֽת	case	(et)
30	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	31 אֲתֹנֹֽת	det	the
31	אֲתֹנֹֽת	אָתוֹן	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Plur	28 בַּקֵּ֖שׁ	obj	she-asses
32	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	31 אֲתֹנֹֽת	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
תֹּאבַדְנָה they were lost	wayyiqtol · qal	אֲתֹנוֹת she-asses
יֹּאמֶר he said	wayyiqtol · qal	קִישׁ Kish
קַח־ take	imperative · qal	שָׁאוּל Saul	אַחַד one
קוּם arise	imperative · qal	שָׁאוּל Saul
לֵךְ go	imperative · qal	שָׁאוּל Saul
בַּקֵּשׁ seek	imperative · piel	שָׁאוּל Saul	אֲתֹנֹֽת she-asses

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

וַאֲבָדָא אֲתָנַיָא לְקִישׁ אָבוּהִי דְשָׁאוּל וַאֲמַר קִישׁ לְשָׁאוּל בְּרֵיהּ דְבַר כְּעַן עִמָךְ יַת חַד מֵעוּלֵמַיָא וְקוּם אֱזִיל בָּעֵי יַת אֲתָנַיָא:

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.

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:181.

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