1 Samuel 14:37 · JPS 1917
And Saul asked counsel of God: 'Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt Thou deliver them into the hand of Israel?' But He answered him not that day.
Who acts: Saul, I, Thou · What happens: ask, go down, deliver, not answer · To what, where: counsel, Philistines, hand, God · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 14:37 · 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 (Saul, I, Thou), 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 | _ | 3 asked | cc |
| 2 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 God | case |
| 6 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 counsel | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 9 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 go | compound:prt |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 Philistines | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Philistines | det |
| 15 | Philistines | Philistines | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 go | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 17 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 19 deliver | aux |
| 18 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 deliver | nsubj |
| 19 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | parataxis |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 deliver | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 hand | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hand | det |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 deliver | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Israel | case |
| 25 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 hand | nmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 deliver | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 28 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 answered | cc |
| 29 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 answered | nsubj |
| 30 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 answered | obj |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 answered | advmod |
| 33 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 day | det |
| 34 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 answered | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Saul | counsel of God | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent counsel=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go down | shall | I | after the Philistines | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | deliver | future | Thou | Philistines | the hand of Israel | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 4 | not answer speech: assert | past | Saul | God | day | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
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
וַיִּשְׁאַ֤ל שָׁאוּל֙ בֵּֽאלֹהִ֔ים הַֽאֵרֵד֙ אַחֲרֵ֣י פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים הֲתִתְּנֵ֖ם בְּיַ֣ד יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְלֹ֥א עָנָ֖הוּ בַּיּ֥וֹם הַהֽוּא׃
1 Samuel 14:37: 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:365 of Mova's parse database.
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