1 Samuel 9:27 · JPS 1917

As they were going down at the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul: 'Bid the servant pass on before us — and he passed on — but stand thou still at this time, that I may cause thee to hear the word of God.'

Who acts: people, Samuel, thou, I, thee · What happens: go down, say, bid, pass on, stand, cause · To what, where: end, Saul, servant, thee, word, God · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 9:27 · 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 (people, Samuel, thou, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 going	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 said	advcl
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 going	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 city	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 city	det
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 end	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
13	Samuel	Samuel	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Saul	case
16	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 Bid	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 Bid	punct
19	Bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 servant	det
21	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Bid	obj
22	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 Bid	xcomp
23	on	on	ADP	_	22 pass	compound:prt
24	before	before	ADP	_	25 us	case
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 pass	obl
26	—	-	PUNCT	_	29 passed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 passed	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 passed	nsubj
29	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 Bid	conj
30	on	on	ADP	_	29 passed	compound:prt
31	—	-	PUNCT	_	33 stand	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 stand	cc
33	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 Bid	conj
34	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	33 stand	nsubj
35	still	still	ADV	_	33 stand	advmod
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 time	case
37	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 time	det
38	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stand	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 cause	punct
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 cause	mark
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 cause	nsubj
42	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 cause	aux
43	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 stand	advcl
44	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	43 cause	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 hear	mark
46	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 cause	xcomp
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 word	det
48	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 hear	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 God	case
50	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 word	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
52	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	go down	past · progressive	people			at the end of the city	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at end=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Samuel		Saul		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to saul=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	bid	infinitive		the servant			tree rules
4	pass on	infinitive				before us	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	pass on	past	Samuel				vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	stand	infinitive	thou			still; time	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	cause	may	I	thee			tree rules
8	hear	to-infinitive	thee not said here	the word of God			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
9	word			God			nom word «communication transitive»: of=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

הֵ֗מָּה יֽוֹרְדִים֙ בִּקְצֵ֣ה הָעִ֔יר וּשְׁמוּאֵ֞ל אָמַ֣ר אֶל־שָׁא֗וּל אֱמֹ֥ר לַנַּ֛עַר וְיַעֲבֹ֥ר לְפָנֵ֖ינוּ וַֽיַּעֲבֹ֑ר וְאַתָּה֙ עֲמֹ֣ד כַּיּ֔וֹם וְאַשְׁמִיעֲךָ֖ אֶת־דְּבַ֥ר אֱלֹהִֽים׃פ

1 Samuel 9:27: 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:228 of Mova's parse database.

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