1 Samuel 10:12 · JPS 1917

And one of the same place answered and said: 'And who is their father?' Therefore it became a proverb: 'Is Saul also among the prophets?'

Who acts: one, place, Saul · What happens: answer, say, be, become · To what, where: father, proverb · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 10:12 · 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 (one, place, Saul), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 answered	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 answered	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 place	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 place	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 place	amod
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 one	nmod
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 answered	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 father	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 father	punct
12	And	and	CCONJ	_	16 father	cc
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	16 father	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 father	cop
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 father	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 father	punct
19	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	21 became	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 became	nsubj
21	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 answered	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 proverb	det
23	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 became	xcomp
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 prophets	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 prophets	punct
26	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 prophets	cop
27	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 prophets	nsubj
28	also	also	ADV	_	31 prophets	advmod
29	among	among	ADP	_	31 prophets	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 prophets	det
31	prophets	prophet	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 became	ccomp
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 prophets	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 prophets	punct

Pragmatics

form: other
act: narrate
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=other, act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	one of the same place			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	one of the same place not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		prophets's father		tree rules
4	become	past	place	a proverb	therefore property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	is	present	Saul		among the prophets	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

וַיַּ֨עַן אִ֥ישׁ מִשָּׁ֛ם וַיֹּ֖אמֶר וּמִ֣י אֲבִיהֶ֑ם עַל־כֵּן֙ הָיְתָ֣ה לְמָשָׁ֔ל הֲגַ֥ם שָׁא֖וּל בַּנְּבִאִֽים׃

1 Samuel 10:12: 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:241 of Mova's parse database.

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