1 Samuel 9:18 · JPS 1917

Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said: 'Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer's house is.'

Who acts: Saul, I · What happens: draw, say, tell, pray, be · To what, where: Samuel, gate, me, thee, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 9:18 · 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, I), 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	3 drew	advmod
2	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADV	_	3 drew	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Samuel	case
6	Samuel	Samuel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 drew	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 gate	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gate	det
9	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 Tell	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 Tell	punct
15	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 Tell	iobj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Tell	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 pray	nsubj
19	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 Tell	parataxis
20	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 pray	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 where	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	26 house	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 seer	det
24	seer	seer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 house	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 seer	case
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pray	ccomp
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 house	cop
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	Saul		Samuel	the gate	then	near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in gate=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	Saul not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive			me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	pray	present	I	thee					tree rules
5	is a	present	I not said here	the seer's house					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

וַיִּגַּ֥שׁ שָׁא֛וּל אֶת־שְׁמוּאֵ֖ל בְּת֣וֹךְ הַשָּׁ֑עַר וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ הַגִּֽידָה־נָּ֣א לִ֔י אֵי־זֶ֖ה בֵּ֥ית הָרֹאֶֽה׃

1 Samuel 9:18: 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:216 of Mova's parse database.

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