1 Samuel 1:1 · JPS 1917

NOW THERE was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

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

This is 1 Samuel 1:1 · 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 (certain man, name, man), 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	NOW	now	ADV	_	3 was	advmod
2	THERE	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 zophim	case
8	Ramathaim	Ramathaim	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 zophim	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 zophim	punct
10	zophim	zophim	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 man	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 country	punct
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 country	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 country	det
14	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 country	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 hill	punct
16	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Ephraim	case
18	Ephraim	Ephraim	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 country	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Elkanah	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Elkanah	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 name	nmod:poss
22	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Elkanah	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 Elkanah	cop
24	Elkanah	Elkanah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 was	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 son	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 son	det
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Elkanah	appos
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Jeroham	case
29	Jeroham	Jeroham	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 son	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 son	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 son	det
32	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Elkanah	appos
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Elihu	case
34	Elihu	Elihu	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 son	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 son	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 son	det
37	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 son	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Tohu	case
39	Tohu	Tohu	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 son	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 son	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 son	det
42	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 son	appos
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 Zuph	case
44	Zuph	Zuph	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 son	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 Ephraimite	punct
46	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 Ephraimite	det
47	Ephraimite	Ephraimite	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Zuph	appos
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	past	a certain man of Ramathaim zophim of the hill country of Ephraim		there	now	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	man's name	Elkanah			tree rules
3	name		man				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

וַיְהִי֩ אִ֨ישׁ אֶחָ֜ד מִן־הָרָמָתַ֛יִם צוֹפִ֖ים מֵהַ֣ר אֶפְרָ֑יִם וּשְׁמ֡וֹ אֶ֠לְקָנָה בֶּן־יְרֹחָ֧ם בֶּן־אֱלִיה֛וּא בֶּן־תֹּ֥חוּ בֶן־צ֖וּף אֶפְרָתִֽי׃

1 Samuel 1:1: 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:1SA:0 of Mova's parse database.

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