1 Samuel 9:9 · JPS 1917

Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he said: 'Come and let us go to the seer'; for he that is now called a prophet was beforetime called a seer. —

Who acts: man, us · What happens: go, inquire, say, come, let, call · To what, where: Israel, us, seer, prophet, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 9:9 · 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, us), 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	Beforetime	beforetime	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Israel	case
3	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Israel	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 went	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 inquire	mark
10	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 went	xcomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 God	case
12	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 inquire	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
14	thus	thus	ADV	_	16 said	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 Come	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 Come	punct
19	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 let	cc
21	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 Come	conj
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 let	obj
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	xcomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 seer	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 seer	det
26	seer	seer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 go	obl
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 Come	punct
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 called	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	39 called	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 called	nsubj:pass
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 called	nsubj:pass
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 called	aux:pass
33	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 called	advmod
34	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 he	acl:relcl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 prophet	det
36	prophet	prophet	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 called	xcomp
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 called	aux:pass
38	beforetime	beforetime	ADV	_	39 called	advmod
39	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 said	advcl
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 seer	det
41	seer	seer	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 called	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
43	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	a man				beforetime property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	inquire speech: other	to-infinitive	a man not said here				of God	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of god=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	man		Israel		thus property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come	infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	let	infinitive		us				tree rules
6	go	infinitive	us not said here		the seer			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to seer=Initial_Location
7	call	present · passive		a prophet		now		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
8	call	past · passive		man			beforetime property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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

לְפָנִ֣ים ׀ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל כֹּֽה־אָמַ֤ר הָאִישׁ֙ בְּלֶכְתּוֹ֙ לִדְר֣וֹשׁ אֱלֹהִ֔ים לְכ֥וּ וְנֵלְכָ֖ה עַד־הָרֹאֶ֑ה כִּ֤י לַנָּבִיא֙ הַיּ֔וֹם יִקָּרֵ֥א לְפָנִ֖ים הָרֹאֶֽה׃

1 Samuel 9:9: 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:206 of Mova's parse database.

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