1 Samuel 9:7 · JPS 1917

Then said Saul to his servant: 'But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God; what have we?'

Who acts: Saul, we, present · What happens: say, go, bring, spend, not be, have · To what, where: man, bread, vessels · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 9:7 · 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 (Saul, we, present), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 servant	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 servant	nmod:poss
6	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 bring	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 bring	punct
9	But	but	CCONJ	_	20 bring	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 behold	punct
11	behold	behold	INTJ	_	20 bring	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 go	mark
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 go	nsubj
15	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 bring	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 bring	obj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 bring	aux
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 bring	nsubj
20	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bring	obj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 bring	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 spent	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bread	det
26	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spent	nsubj:pass
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 spent	aux:pass
28	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 bring	advcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 vessels	case
30	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 vessels	nmod:poss
31	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 spent	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 is	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 is	cc
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 is	expl
35	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 spent	conj
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 is	advmod
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 present	det
38	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 is	nsubj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 bring	mark
40	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 present	acl
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 man	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 man	det
43	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 bring	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 God	case
45	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 man	nmod
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 have	punct
47	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	48 have	obj
48	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
49	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 have	nsubj
50	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
51	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=q, act=ask

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Saul				then	to Saul's servant	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to servant=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	go a condition, not said to happen	present	we						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bring	shall	we		the man				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme man=Destination
4	spend	present · passive		the bread		our vessels			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
5	not be	present	a present			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bring	to-infinitive	a present not said here		the man of God				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to man=Destination
7	have	present	we						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

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

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר שָׁא֜וּל לְנַעֲר֗וֹ וְהִנֵּ֣ה נֵלֵךְ֮ וּמַה־נָּבִ֣יא לָאִישׁ֒ כִּ֤י הַלֶּ֙חֶם֙ אָזַ֣ל מִכֵּלֵ֔ינוּ וּתְשׁוּרָ֥ה אֵין־לְהָבִ֖יא לְאִ֣ישׁ הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים מָ֖ה אִתָּֽנוּ׃

1 Samuel 9:7: 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:204 of Mova's parse database.

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