1 Samuel 8:20 · JPS 1917

that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.'

Who acts: we, king, our · What happens: be, judge, go out, fight, battle · To what, where: us, battles

This is 1 Samuel 8:20 · 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 (we, king, our), 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	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 nations	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 nations	nsubj
3	also	also	ADV	_	9 nations	advmod
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 nations	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 nations	cop
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 nations	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 nations	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nations	det
9	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 judge	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 judge	cc
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 judge	mark
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 king	nmod:poss
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 judge	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 judge	aux
16	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 nations	conj
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 judge	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 go	cc
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 judge	conj
21	out	out	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
22	before	before	ADP	_	23 us	case
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 go	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fight	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fight	cc
26	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 judge	conj
27	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 battles	nmod:poss
28	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 fight	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 nations	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 nations	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: suggest
voice: character
polarity: none
hedged: yes
teacher: changed voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	we			like all nations	tree rules
2	judge	may	our king	us			vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent we=Value
3	go out	infinitive	our king not said here		before us	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fight	infinitive	our king not said here	our battles			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Co-Agent
5	battle		our				nom battle «act 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

וְהָיִ֥ינוּ גַם־אֲנַ֖חְנוּ כְּכָל־הַגּוֹיִ֑ם וּשְׁפָטָ֤נוּ מַלְכֵּ֙נוּ֙ וְיָצָ֣א לְפָנֵ֔ינוּ וְנִלְחַ֖ם אֶת־מִלְחֲמֹתֵֽנוּ׃

1 Samuel 8:20: 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:194 of Mova's parse database.

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