1 Samuel 8:4 · JPS 1917
Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah.
Who acts: elders · What happens: gather, come · To what, where: elders, Samuel
This is 1 Samuel 8:4 · 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 (elders), 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 | Then | then | ADV | _ | 7 gathered | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 elders | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 elders | det |
| 4 | elders | elder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gathered | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Israel | case |
| 6 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 elders | nmod |
| 7 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 gathered | obj |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 gathered | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gathered | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Samuel | case |
| 14 | Samuel | Samuel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 15 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 16 Ramah | case |
| 16 | Ramah | Ramah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gathered | 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 | gather | past | all elders of Israel | elders = elder | then | together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | ||
| 2 | come | past | all elders of Israel not said here | Samuel | unto Ramah | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to samuel=Initial_Location |
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
וַיִּֽתְקַבְּצ֔וּ כֹּ֖ל זִקְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיָּבֹ֥אוּ אֶל־שְׁמוּאֵ֖ל הָרָמָֽתָה׃
1 Samuel 8:4: 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:178 of Mova's parse database.
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