1 Samuel 4:6 · JPS 1917
And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said: 'What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews?' And they knew that the ark of the LORD was come into the camp.
Who acts: Philistines, ark, shout, great shout · What happens: hear, say, mean, know, come, noise · To what, where: noise, camp · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 4:6 · 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 (Philistines, ark, shout, great shout), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 heard | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Philistines | det |
| 4 | Philistines | Philistines | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 noise | det |
| 7 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 shout | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shout | det |
| 10 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 noise | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 meaneth | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 meaneth | punct |
| 16 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 meaneth | nsubj |
| 17 | meaneth | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 noise | det |
| 19 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 meaneth | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 shout | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 shout | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 shout | amod |
| 23 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 noise | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 camp | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 camp | det |
| 26 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 meaneth | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Hebrews | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Hebrews | det |
| 29 | Hebrews | Hebrews | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 camp | nmod |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 meaneth | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 meaneth | punct |
| 32 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 knew | cc |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 knew | nsubj |
| 34 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 come | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 ark | det |
| 37 | ark | ark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 come | nsubj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 LORD | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 LORD | det |
| 40 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 ark | nmod |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 come | aux |
| 42 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 knew | ccomp |
| 43 | into | into | ADP | _ | 45 camp | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 camp | det |
| 45 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 come | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Philistines | the noise of the shout | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Philistines | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | the noise of this great shout | in the camp of the Hebrews | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot noise=Theme in camp=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | know | past | Philistines | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | come | past · passive | the ark of the LORD | the camp | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into camp=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | noise | the shout | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 7 | noise | this great shout | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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
וַיִּשְׁמְע֤וּ פְלִשְׁתִּים֙ אֶת־ק֣וֹל הַתְּרוּעָ֔ה וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ מֶ֠ה ק֣וֹל הַתְּרוּעָ֧ה הַגְּדוֹלָ֛ה הַזֹּ֖את בְּמַחֲנֵ֣ה הָעִבְרִ֑ים וַיֵּ֣דְע֔וּ כִּ֚י אֲר֣וֹן יְהוָ֔ה בָּ֖א אֶל־הַֽמַּחֲנֶֽה׃
1 Samuel 4:6: 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:102 of Mova's parse database.
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