1 Samuel 14:30 · JPS 1917

How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to-day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? had there not been then a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?'

Who acts: people, greater slaughter · What happens: eat, find, not be, spoil · To what, where: spoil, enemies

This is 1 Samuel 14:30 · 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, greater slaughter), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADV	_	3 more	advmod
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 been	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eaten	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 eaten	mark
6	haply	haply	ADV	_	10 eaten	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eaten	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 eaten	aux
10	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 more	advcl
11	freely	freely	ADV	_	10 eaten	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 day	case
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 to	punct
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eaten	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 spoil	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 spoil	det
17	spoil	spoil	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eaten	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 enemies	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 enemies	nmod:poss
20	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 spoil	nmod
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 found	obj
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 found	nsubj
23	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 spoil	acl:relcl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 been	punct
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 been	aux
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 been	expl
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 been	advmod
28	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 been	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 slaughter	det
31	much	much	ADV	_	32 greater	advmod
32	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 slaughter	amod
33	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 been	nsubj
34	among	among	ADP	_	36 Philistines	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Philistines	det
36	Philistines	Philistines	PROPN	Number=Plur	33 slaughter	nmod
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 been	punct
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 been	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=1

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the people			day	of the spoil of people's enemies; freely, haply property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of spoil=Source
2	find	past	people	the spoil of people's enemies				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic
3	not be	past · perfect	a greater slaughter among the Philistines		there	then		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	spoil			people's enemies				nom spoil «possession transitive»: of=patient

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

אַ֗ף כִּ֡י לוּא֩ אָכֹ֨ל אָכַ֤ל הַיּוֹם֙ הָעָ֔ם מִשְּׁלַ֥ל אֹיְבָ֖יו אֲשֶׁ֣ר מָצָ֑א כִּ֥י עַתָּ֛ה לֹֽא־רָבְתָ֥ה מַכָּ֖ה בַּפְּלִשְׁתִּֽים׃

1 Samuel 14:30: 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:358 of Mova's parse database.

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