1 Samuel 7:9 · JPS 1917
And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt-offering unto the LORD; and Samuel cried unto the LORD for Israel; and the LORD answered him.
Who acts: Samuel, LORD · What happens: take, offer, burn, cry, answer · To what, where: sucking lamb, lamb, Israel
This is 1 Samuel 7:9 · 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 (Samuel, LORD), 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 | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | Samuel | Samuel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lamb | det |
| 5 | sucking | suck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lamb | amod |
| 6 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 offered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 offered | cc |
| 9 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 offered | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 offering | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 offering | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 offering | amod |
| 14 | burnt | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 offering | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 burnt | punct |
| 16 | offering | offering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 offered | obl |
| 17 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 19 LORD | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 LORD | det |
| 19 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 offered | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 cried | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cried | cc |
| 22 | Samuel | Samuel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 cried | nsubj |
| 23 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 24 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 26 LORD | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 LORD | det |
| 26 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 cried | obl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 Israel | case |
| 28 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 cried | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 answered | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 answered | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 LORD | det |
| 32 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 answered | nsubj |
| 33 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 answered | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Samuel | a sucking lamb | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument lamb=Destination | ||||
| 2 | offer | past | Samuel not said here | lamb | for a whole burnt offering goal; unto the LORD | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme for offering=Goal | |||
| 3 | burn | participle | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | Samuel | unto the LORD; for Israel | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for israel=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | past | the LORD | Israel | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
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
וַיִּקַּ֣ח שְׁמוּאֵ֗ל טְלֵ֤ה חָלָב֙ אֶחָ֔ד וַיַּעֲלֵ֧הוּ עוֹלָ֛ה כָּלִ֖יל לַֽיהוָ֑ה וַיִּזְעַ֨ק שְׁמוּאֵ֤ל אֶל־יְהוָה֙ בְּעַ֣ד יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַֽיַּעֲנֵ֖הוּ יְהוָֽה׃
1 Samuel 7:9: 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:1SA:165 of Mova's parse database.
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