1 Samuel 4:14 · JPS 1917

And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said: 'What meaneth the noise of this tumult?' And the man made haste, and came and told Eli.

Who acts: Eli, man, crying, tumult · What happens: hear, say, mean, make, come, tell · To what, where: noise, haste, Eli · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 4:14 · 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 (Eli, man, crying, tumult), 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	_	12 said	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 heard	mark
3	Eli	Eli	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 noise	det
6	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 crying	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crying	det
9	crying	crying	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 noise	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 meaneth	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 meaneth	nsubj
16	meaneth	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 noise	det
18	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 meaneth	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 tumult	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 tumult	det
21	tumult	tumult	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 noise	nmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 meaneth	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 meaneth	punct
24	And	and	CCONJ	_	27 made	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 made	nsubj
27	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
28	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 made	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 came	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 came	cc
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 made	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 told	cc
33	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 came	conj
34	Eli	Eli	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 told	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	hear	past	Eli	the noise of the crying		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Eli			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	mean	present		the noise of this tumult		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Topic
4	make	past	the man	haste		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product
5	come	past	the man not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	past	the man not said here		Eli	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent eli=Recipient
7	noise		the crying			nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent
8	noise		this tumult			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

וַיִּשְׁמַ֤ע עֵלִי֙ אֶת־ק֣וֹל הַצְּעָקָ֔ה וַיֹּ֕אמֶר מֶ֛ה ק֥וֹל הֶהָמ֖וֹן הַזֶּ֑ה וְהָאִ֣ישׁ מִהַ֔ר וַיָּבֹ֖א וַיַּגֵּ֥ד לְעֵלִֽי׃

1 Samuel 4:14: 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:111 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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