1 Samuel 9:2 · JPS 1917

And he had a son, whose name was Saul, young and goodly, and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.

Who acts: man, name, goodlier person, Saul · What happens: have, be, not be, name · To what, where: son, Saul, shoulders

This is 1 Samuel 9:2 · 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 (man, name, goodlier person, Saul), 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 had	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 son	det
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Saul	punct
7	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	8 name	nmod:poss
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Saul	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Saul	cop
10	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 son	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 young	punct
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 son	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 goodly	cc
14	goodly	goodly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 young	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 was	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 was	cc
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 was	expl
18	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 was	advmod
20	among	among	ADP	_	22 children	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 children	det
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 was	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Israel	case
24	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 children	nmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 person	det
26	goodlier	goodly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 person	amod
27	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 was	nsubj
28	than	than	ADP	_	29 he	case
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 goodlier	obl
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 higher	punct
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 shoulders	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 shoulders	nmod:poss
33	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 higher	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 upward	cc
35	upward	upward	ADV	_	33 shoulders	conj
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 higher	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 higher	cop
38	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 was	conj
39	than	than	ADP	_	40 any	case
40	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	38 higher	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 people	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 people	det
43	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 any	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	man	a son			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	is a	past	Saul's name	Saul			tree rules
3	not be	past	a goodlier person		there	among the children of Israel	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among child=Location
4	is	past	man		man's shoulders	than any; high property	tree rules
5	name		Saul				nom name «communication 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

וְלוֹ־הָיָ֨ה בֵ֜ן וּשְׁמ֤וֹ שָׁאוּל֙ בָּח֣וּר וָט֔וֹב וְאֵ֥ין אִ֛ישׁ מִבְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל ט֣וֹב מִמֶּ֑נּוּ מִשִּׁכְמ֣וֹ וָמַ֔עְלָה גָּבֹ֖הַּ מִכָּל־הָעָֽם׃

1 Samuel 9:2: 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:198 of Mova's parse database.

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