1 Kings 3:9 · JPS 1917
Give Thy servant therefore an understanding heart to judge Thy people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this Thy great people?'
Who acts: you, I · What happens: give, judge, discern, be · To what, where: understanding heart, servant, people, great people
This is 1 Kings 3:9 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 servant | nmod:poss |
| 3 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | iobj |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 1 Give | advmod |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 heart | det |
| 6 | understanding | understanding | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 heart | amod |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 judge | mark |
| 9 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 heart | acl |
| 10 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 people | nmod:poss |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 judge | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 discern | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 discern | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 discern | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 discern | aux |
| 16 | discern | discern | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | advcl |
| 17 | between | between | ADP | _ | 18 good | case |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 discern | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 evil | cc |
| 20 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 good | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 able | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 able | mark |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 able | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 able | cop |
| 25 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Give | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 judge | mark |
| 27 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 able | xcomp |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 people | det |
| 29 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 people | nmod:poss |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 people | amod |
| 31 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 judge | obj |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | a understanding heart | Thy servant | therefore property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient heart=Theme | ||
| 2 | judge | to-infinitive | you not said here | Thy people | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent people=Value | ||||
| 3 | discern | may | I | between good | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is | present | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | judge | to-infinitive | Thy great people | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent people=Value |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The Hebrew of this verse
וְנָתַתָּ֨ לְעַבְדְּךָ֜ לֵ֤ב שֹׁמֵ֙עַ֙ לִשְׁפֹּ֣ט אֶֽת־עַמְּךָ֔ לְהָבִ֖ין בֵּֽין־ט֣וֹב לְרָ֑ע כִּ֣י מִ֤י יוּכַל֙ לִשְׁפֹּ֔ט אֶת־עַמְּךָ֥ הַכָּבֵ֖ד הַזֶּֽה׃
1 Kings 3:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1KI:117 of Mova's parse database.
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