1 Samuel 12:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Is it not wheat harvest to-day?
Who acts: thing · What happens: not be · To what, where: wheat harvest
This is 1 Samuel 12:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (thing), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 harvest | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 harvest | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 harvest | advmod |
| 4 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 harvest | compound |
| 5 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 to | punct |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 harvest | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 harvest | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=ask, indirect=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | thing | wheat harvest | day | 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
הֲל֤וֹא קְצִיר־חִטִּים֙ הַיּ֔וֹם אֶקְרָא֙ אֶל־יְהוָ֔ה וְיִתֵּ֥ן קֹל֖וֹת וּמָטָ֑ר וּדְע֣וּ וּרְא֗וּ כִּֽי־רָעַתְכֶ֤ם רַבָּה֙ אֲשֶׁ֤ר עֲשִׂיתֶם֙ בְּעֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה לִשְׁא֥וֹל לָכֶ֖ם מֶֽלֶךְ׃ס
1 Samuel 12:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Is it not wheat harvest to-day?
- I will call unto the LORD, that He may send thunder and rain; and ye shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1SA:291 of Mova's parse database.
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