1 Samuel 9:11 · JPS 1917
As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them: 'Is the seer here?'
Who acts: servants, young maidens · What happens: go up, find, go out, draw, say, be · To what, where: ascent, young maidens, water, seer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 9:11 · 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 (servants, young maidens), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ascent | det |
| 6 | ascent | ascent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 city | det |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ascent | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 found | nsubj |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 maidens | amod |
| 14 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 found | obj |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 maidens | acl |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 going | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 draw | mark |
| 18 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 going | advcl |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 draw | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | conj |
| 23 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 said | obl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 seer | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 seer | punct |
| 27 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 seer | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 seer | det |
| 29 | seer | seer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | ccomp |
| 30 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 seer | advmod |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 29 seer | punct |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 seer | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | servants = servant | the ascent to the city | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | find | past | servants = servant | young maidens | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go out | gerund | young maidens not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | draw | to-infinitive | young maidens not said here | water | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | servants = servant not said here | unto servants = servant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | the seer | here | tree rules |
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
הֵ֗מָּה עֹלִים֙ בְּמַעֲלֵ֣ה הָעִ֔יר וְהֵ֙מָּה֙ מָצְא֣וּ נְעָר֔וֹת יֹצְא֖וֹת לִשְׁאֹ֣ב מָ֑יִם וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ לָהֶ֔ן הֲיֵ֥שׁ בָּזֶ֖ה הָרֹאֶֽה׃
1 Samuel 9:11: 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:208 of Mova's parse database.
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