1 Samuel 4:17 · JPS 1917

And he that brought the tidings answered and said: 'Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.'

Who acts: Eli, two sons · What happens: bring, answer, say, flee, be, take · To what, where: tidings, Israel, ark · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 4:17 · 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, two sons), 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	_	7 answered	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 answered	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 brought	nsubj
4	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 he	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tidings	det
6	tidings	tiding	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brought	obj
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 answered	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 fled	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 fled	punct
12	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 fled	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fled	aux:pass
14	fled	flee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	ccomp
15	before	before	ADP	_	17 Philistines	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Philistines	det
17	Philistines	philistine	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 fled	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 been	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 been	cc
20	there	there	PRON	_	22 been	expl
21	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 been	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 fled	conj
23	also	also	ADV	_	22 been	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 slaughter	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 slaughter	amod
26	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 been	nsubj
27	among	among	ADP	_	29 people	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 people	det
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 slaughter	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 dead	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 dead	cc
32	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	34 sons	nmod:poss
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 sons	nummod
34	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 dead	nsubj
35	also	also	ADV	_	34 sons	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Hophni	punct
37	Hophni	Hophni	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 sons	appos
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 Phinehas	cc
39	Phinehas	Phinehas	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Hophni	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sons	punct
41	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 dead	cop
42	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fled	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 taken	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 taken	cc
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 ark	det
46	ark	ark	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 taken	nsubj:pass
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 God	case
48	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 ark	nmod
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 taken	aux:pass
50	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 fled	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
52	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past		the tidings			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tiding=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past	Eli				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Eli not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	flee	present · passive		Israel	before the Philistines		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location
5	is	present	thy two sons			dead property	tree rules
6	take	present · passive		the ark of God			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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

וַיַּ֨עַן הַֽמְבַשֵּׂ֜ר וַיֹּ֗אמֶר נָ֤ס יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לִפְנֵ֣י פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים וְגַ֛ם מַגֵּפָ֥ה גְדוֹלָ֖ה הָיְתָ֣ה בָעָ֑ם וְגַם־שְׁנֵ֨י בָנֶ֜יךָ מֵ֗תוּ חָפְנִי֙ וּפִ֣ינְחָ֔ס וַאֲר֥וֹן הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים נִלְקָֽחָה׃פ

1 Samuel 4:17: 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:114 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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