1 Samuel 8:6 · JPS 1917

But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said: 'Give us a king to judge us.' And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.

Who acts: thing, sons, Samuel · What happens: displease, say, give, judge, pray · To what, where: Samuel, king, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 8:6 · 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 (thing, sons, Samuel), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 displeased	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 displeased	nsubj
4	displeased	displease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Samuel	Samuel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 displeased	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 said	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 displeased	advcl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 Give	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 Give	punct
12	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 Give	iobj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Give	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 judge	mark
17	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 king	acl
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 judge	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 Give	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 Give	punct
21	And	and	CCONJ	_	23 prayed	cc
22	Samuel	Samuel	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 prayed	nsubj
23	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 displeased	conj
24	unto	unto	ADP	_	26 LORD	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 LORD	det
26	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 prayed	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 displeased	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	displease	past	the thing	Samuel			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus samuel=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	sons = son				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give	infinitive		a king	us		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient king=Theme
4	judge	to-infinitive		us			vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent we=Value
5	pray	past	Samuel			unto the LORD	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

וַיֵּ֤רַע הַדָּבָר֙ בְּעֵינֵ֣י שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר אָמְר֔וּ תְּנָה־לָּ֥נוּ מֶ֖לֶךְ לְשָׁפְטֵ֑נוּ וַיִּתְפַּלֵּ֥ל שְׁמוּאֵ֖ל אֶל־יְהוָֽה׃פ

1 Samuel 8:6: 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:180 of Mova's parse database.

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