1 Samuel 8:19 · JPS 1917
But the people refused to hearken unto the voice of Samuel; and they said: 'Nay; but there shall be a king over us;
Who acts: people · What happens: refuse, not hearken, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 8:19 · 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 (people), 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 refused | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 refused | nsubj |
| 4 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hearken | mark |
| 6 | hearken | hearken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 refused | xcomp |
| 7 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 9 voice | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 voice | det |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hearken | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Samuel | case |
| 11 | Samuel | Samuel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 voice | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 refused | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Nay | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Nay | punct |
| 18 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 23 be | discourse |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 be | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 be | cc |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 be | expl |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 be | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 king | det |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 be | nsubj |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 us | case |
| 27 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 king | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | the people | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not hearken | to-infinitive | the people not said here | unto the voice of Samuel | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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
וַיְמָאֲנ֣וּ הָעָ֔ם לִשְׁמֹ֖עַ בְּק֣וֹל שְׁמוּאֵ֑ל וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ לֹּ֔א כִּ֥י אִם־מֶ֖לֶךְ יִֽהְיֶ֥ה עָלֵֽינוּ׃
1 Samuel 8:19: 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:193 of Mova's parse database.
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