1 Samuel 11:12 · JPS 1917

And the people said unto Samuel: 'Who is he that said: Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.'

Who acts: people, two, Saul, we · What happens: say, be, reign, bring, put · To what, where: men · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 11:12 · 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 (people, two, Saul, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Who	parataxis
5	unto	unto	ADP	_	6 Samuel	case
6	Samuel	Samuel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Who	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 Who	punct
9	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Who	cop
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 Who	nsubj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 he	acl:relcl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 reign	punct
15	Shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 reign	aux
16	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 reign	nsubj
17	reign	reign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
18	over	over	ADP	_	19 us	case
19	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 reign	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 reign	punct
21	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 men	det
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bring	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 put	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 put	mark
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 put	nsubj
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 put	aux
28	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 bring	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 put	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 death	case
31	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=ask, form=q

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the people			unto Samuel	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	two				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	reign	shall	Saul			over us	tree rules
5	bring	infinitive			the men		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination
6	put	may	we	men = man		to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal

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

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר הָעָם֙ אֶל־שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל מִ֣י הָאֹמֵ֔ר שָׁא֖וּל יִמְלֹ֣ךְ עָלֵ֑ינוּ תְּנ֥וּ הָאֲנָשִׁ֖ים וּנְמִיתֵֽם׃

1 Samuel 11:12: 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:271 of Mova's parse database.

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