1 Samuel 1:18 · JPS 1917
And she said: 'Let thy servant find favour in thy sight.' So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.
Who acts: Israel, servant, woman, countenance, thy · What happens: say, let, find, go, eat, be · To what, where: favour, sight, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 1:18 · 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 (Israel, servant, woman, countenance), 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 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
| 6 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 servant | nmod:poss |
| 8 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Let | nsubj |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Let | xcomp |
| 10 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sight | case |
| 12 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 sight | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
| 16 | So | so | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 woman | det |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 way | nmod:poss |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 eat | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 eat | cc |
| 24 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 eat | aux |
| 25 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 went | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sad | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 sad | cc |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 29 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sad | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 sad | cop |
| 31 | no | no | ADV | _ | 32 more | advmod |
| 32 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 33 sad | advmod |
| 33 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 went | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
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- act
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- voice
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- teacher
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Israel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | thy servant | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | find | infinitive | thy servant not said here | favour | thy sight | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic | |||
| 4 | go | past | the woman | Israel's way | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | eat | past · do-support | the woman not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | past | Israel's countenance | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | sight | thy | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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
וַתֹּ֕אמֶר תִּמְצָ֧א שִׁפְחָתְךָ֛ חֵ֖ן בְּעֵינֶ֑יךָ וַתֵּ֨לֶךְ הָאִשָּׁ֤ה לְדַרְכָּהּ֙ וַתֹּאכַ֔ל וּפָנֶ֥יהָ לֹא־הָיוּ־לָ֖הּ עֽוֹד׃
1 Samuel 1:18: 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:18 of Mova's parse database.
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