1 Samuel 8:2 · JPS 1917

Now the name of his first-born was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beer-sheba.

Who acts: name, Joel · What happens: be, name · To what, where: Joel, judges, Beer sheba, first born, second

This is 1 Samuel 8:2 · 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 (name, Joel), 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	PronType=Dem	10 Joel	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 name	det
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Joel	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 born	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 born	nmod:poss
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 born	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 first	punct
8	born	firstborn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 name	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Joel	cop
10	Joel	Joel	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 name	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 name	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 name	det
14	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Joel	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 second	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 second	nmod:poss
17	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 name	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Abijah	punct
19	Abijah	Abijah	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 name	appos
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 judges	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 judges	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 judges	cop
23	judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Joel	parataxis
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 sheba	case
25	Beer	Beer	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 sheba	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 sheba	punct
27	sheba	Beer-sheba	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 judges	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 Joel	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	past	the name of Samuel's first born	Joel and the name of Samuel's second		now	tree rules
2	is a	past	Joel	judges	Beer sheba		tree rules
3	name			Samuel's first born			nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient
4	name			Samuel's second			nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

וַיְהִ֞י שֶׁם־בְּנ֤וֹ הַבְּכוֹר֙ יוֹאֵ֔ל וְשֵׁ֥ם מִשְׁנֵ֖הוּ אֲבִיָּ֑ה שֹׁפְטִ֖ים בִּבְאֵ֥ר שָֽׁבַע בְאֵ֥ר שָֽׁבַע׃

1 Samuel 8:2: 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:176 of Mova's parse database.

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