1 Samuel 8:3 · JPS 1917
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
Who acts: sons · What happens: not walk, turn, take, pervert · To what, where: ways, bribes, justice
This is 1 Samuel 8:3 · 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 (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 | _ | 4 walked | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sons | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 walked | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 ways | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ways | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 walked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 turned | cc |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | conj |
| 12 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 11 turned | advmod |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 lucre | case |
| 14 | lucre | lucre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | conj |
| 18 | bribes | bribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 perverted | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 perverted | cc |
| 21 | perverted | pervert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 took | conj |
| 22 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 perverted | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not walk | past | Samuel's sons | Samuel's ways | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | Samuel's sons not said here | after lucre | aside property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | take | past | Samuel's sons not said here | bribes | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bribe=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pervert | past | Samuel's sons not said here | justice | tree rules |
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
וְלֹֽא־הָלְכ֤וּ בָנָיו֙ בִּדְרָכָ֔יו וַיִּטּ֖וּ אַחֲרֵ֣י הַבָּ֑צַע וַיִּ֨קְחוּ־שֹׁ֔חַד וַיַּטּ֖וּ מִשְׁפָּֽט׃פ
1 Samuel 8:3: 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:177 of Mova's parse database.
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