1 Samuel 12:12 · JPS 1917
And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me: Nay, but a king shall reign over us; when the LORD your God was your king.
Who acts: ye, Nahash, king, LORD · What happens: see, come, say, reign, be · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 12:12 · 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 (ye, Nahash, king, LORD), 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 | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 saw | mark |
| 3 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 came | mark |
| 6 | Nahash | Nahash | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Nahash | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 children | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 children | det |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 king | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Ammon | case |
| 13 | Ammon | Ammon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 children | nmod |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 came | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 said | obl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 Nay | punct |
| 23 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 19 said | discourse |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 reign | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 reign | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 king | det |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 reign | nsubj |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 reign | aux |
| 29 | reign | reign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 31 us | case |
| 31 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 reign | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 king | punct |
| 33 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 40 king | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 LORD | det |
| 35 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 king | nsubj |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 God | nmod:poss |
| 37 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 LORD | appos |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 king | cop |
| 39 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 king | nmod:poss |
| 40 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 reign | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | ye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | come | past | Nahash | against you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against you=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | ye | unto me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | reign | shall | a king | over us | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | the LORD | your king | 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
וַתִּרְא֗וּ כִּֽי־נָחָ֞שׁ מֶ֣לֶךְ בְּנֵֽי־עַמּוֹן֮ בָּ֣א עֲלֵיכֶם֒ וַתֹּ֣אמְרוּ לִ֔י לֹ֕א כִּי־מֶ֖לֶךְ יִמְלֹ֣ךְ עָלֵ֑ינוּ וַיהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֖ם מַלְכְּכֶֽם׃
1 Samuel 12:12: 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:286 of Mova's parse database.
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