1 Samuel 11:1 · JPS 1917
Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh-gilead; and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash: 'Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.'
Who acts: Nahash, men, we · What happens: come up, encamp, say, make, serve · To what, where: covenant, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 11:1 · 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 (Nahash, men, we), 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 | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | Nahash | Nahash | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ammonite | det |
| 4 | Ammonite | Ammonite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Nahash | appos |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 encamped | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 encamped | cc |
| 9 | encamped | encamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 gilead | case |
| 11 | Jabesh | Jabesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 gilead | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 gilead | punct |
| 13 | gilead | gilead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 encamped | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 men | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 men | det |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 said | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Jabesh | case |
| 20 | Jabesh | Jabesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 men | nmod |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 22 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 23 Nahash | case |
| 23 | Nahash | Nahash | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 Make | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 Make | punct |
| 26 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | ccomp |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 covenant | det |
| 28 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Make | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 us | case |
| 30 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 Make | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 serve | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 serve | cc |
| 33 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 serve | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 serve | aux |
| 35 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 Make | conj |
| 36 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 serve | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 Make | punct |
| 38 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | Nahash | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | encamp | past | Nahash not said here | against Jabesh gilead | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | all men of Jabesh | unto Nahash | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | a covenant | with us | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset covenant=Product | ||||
| 5 | serve | future | we | thee | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Attribute |
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
וַיַּ֗עַל נָחָשׁ֙ הָֽעַמּוֹנִ֔י וַיִּ֖חַן עַל־יָבֵ֣שׁ גִּלְעָ֑ד יָבֵ֣שׁ גִּלְעָ֑ד וַיֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ כָּל־אַנְשֵׁ֤י יָבֵישׁ֙ אֶל־נָחָ֔שׁ כְּרָת־לָ֥נוּ בְרִ֖ית וְנַעַבְדֶֽךָּ׃
1 Samuel 11:1: 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:260 of Mova's parse database.
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