1 Samuel 9:4 · JPS 1917

And he passed through the hill-country of Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they found them not; then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and there they were not; and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found them not.

Who acts: Kish, asses · What happens: pass, not find · To what, where: hill country, land, servants

This is 1 Samuel 9:4 · 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 (Kish, asses), 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 passed	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	8 country	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 country	det
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 country	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 hill	punct
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Ephraim	case
10	Ephraim	Ephraim	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 country	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 passed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 passed	cc
13	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 land	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 land	det
16	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 passed	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Shalishah	case
18	Shalishah	Shalishah	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 land	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 found	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 found	nsubj
22	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 found	obj
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 found	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 passed	punct
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 passed	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 passed	nsubj
28	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	parataxis
29	through	through	ADP	_	31 land	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 land	det
31	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 passed	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Shaalim	case
33	Shaalim	Shaalim	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 land	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 were	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 were	cc
36	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 were	advmod
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 were	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 passed	conj
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 were	advmod
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 passed	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 passed	cc
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 passed	nsubj
43	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
44	through	through	ADP	_	46 land	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 land	det
46	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 passed	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 Benjamites	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Benjamites	det
49	Benjamites	Benjamite	PROPN	Number=Plur	46 land	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 found	punct
51	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 found	cc
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 found	nsubj
53	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 passed	conj
54	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 found	obj
55	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 found	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	pass	past	Kish		the hill country of Ephraim		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through country=Location
2	pass	past	Kish not said here		the land of Shalishah		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through land=Location
3	not find	past	asses = ass	servants = servant			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
4	pass	past	asses = ass		the land of Shaalim	then	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through land=Location
5	pass	past	Kish		the land of the Benjamites		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through land=Location
6	not find	past	asses = ass	servants = servant			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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

וַיַּעֲבֹ֧ר בְּהַר־אֶפְרַ֛יִם וַיַּעֲבֹ֥ר בְּאֶֽרֶץ־שָׁלִ֖שָׁה וְלֹ֣א מָצָ֑אוּ וַיַּעַבְר֤וּ בְאֶֽרֶץ־שַׁעֲלִים֙ וָאַ֔יִן וַיַּעֲבֹ֥ר בְּאֶֽרֶץ־יְמִינִ֖י וְלֹ֥א מָצָֽאוּ׃

1 Samuel 9:4: 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:201 of Mova's parse database.

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