1 Samuel 8:12 · JPS 1917
And he will appoint them unto him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
Who acts: king · What happens: appoint, plow, reap, make · To what, where: sons, ground, harvest, instruments
This is 1 Samuel 8:12 · 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 (king), 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 appoint | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 appoint | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | _ | 4 appoint | aux |
| 4 | appoint | appoint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 appoint | obj |
| 6 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 appoint | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 captains | case |
| 9 | captains | captain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 appoint | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 thousands | case |
| 11 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 captains | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 captains | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 captains | cc |
| 14 | captains | captain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 captains | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 fifties | case |
| 16 | fifties | fifty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 captains | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 plow | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 plow | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 plow | mark |
| 20 | plow | plow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 appoint | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 ground | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 plow | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 reap | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 reap | cc |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 reap | mark |
| 26 | reap | reap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 plow | conj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 harvest | nmod:poss |
| 28 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reap | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 make | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 make | cc |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 make | mark |
| 32 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 plow | conj |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 instruments | nmod:poss |
| 34 | instruments | instrument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 make | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 war | case |
| 36 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 instruments | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 instruments | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 instruments | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 instruments | det |
| 40 | instruments | instrument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 instruments | conj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 chariots | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 chariots | nmod:poss |
| 43 | chariots | chariot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 instruments | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appoint | punct |
Pragmatics
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- statement
- act
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- voice
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- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | future | king | sons = son | unto Samuel; for captains of thousands and captains of fifties | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | plow | to-infinitive | king not said here | king's ground | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ground=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | reap | to-infinitive | king not said here | king's harvest | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harvest=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | king not said here | king's instruments of war and the instruments of king's chariots | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset instrument=Product |
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
וְלָשׂ֣וּם ל֔וֹ שָׂרֵ֥י אֲלָפִ֖ים וְשָׂרֵ֣י חֲמִשִּׁ֑ים וְלַחֲרֹ֤שׁ חֲרִישׁוֹ֙ וְלִקְצֹ֣ר קְצִיר֔וֹ וְלַעֲשׂ֥וֹת כְּלֵֽי־מִלְחַמְתּ֖וֹ וּכְלֵ֥י רִכְבּֽוֹ׃
1 Samuel 8:12: 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:186 of Mova's parse database.
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