1 Samuel 8:5 · JPS 1917

And they said unto him: 'Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways; now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.'

Who acts: elders, thou, sons · What happens: say, be, not walk, make, judge · To what, where: ways, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 8:5 · 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, thou, 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	_	3 said	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unto	unto	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 old	punct
8	Behold	behold	INTJ	_	12 old	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Behold	punct
10	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 old	nsubj
11	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 old	cop
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 walk	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 walk	cc
15	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 sons	nmod:poss
16	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 walk	nsubj
17	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 old	conj
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 walk	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 ways	case
20	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 ways	nmod:poss
21	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 walk	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 make	punct
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 make	advmod
24	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 old	parataxis
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 make	obj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 king	det
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 make	xcomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 judge	mark
29	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 king	acl
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 judge	obj
31	like	like	ADP	_	34 nations	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 nations	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 nations	det
34	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 judge	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: request
voice: character
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	elders = elder				unto Samuel	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	thou				old property	tree rules
3	not walk	present	thy sons		thy ways			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Trajectory
4	make	infinitive		us		now		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset we=Product
5	judge	to-infinitive		us			like all nations	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent we=Value

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

וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ אֵלָ֗יו הִנֵּה֙ אַתָּ֣ה זָקַ֔נְתָּ וּבָנֶ֕יךָ לֹ֥א הָלְכ֖וּ בִּדְרָכֶ֑יךָ עַתָּ֗ה שִֽׂימָה־לָּ֥נוּ מֶ֛לֶךְ לְשָׁפְטֵ֖נוּ כְּכָל־הַגּוֹיִֽם׃

1 Samuel 8:5: 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:179 of Mova's parse database.

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