1 Samuel 15:1 · JPS 1917
And Samuel said unto Saul: 'The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over His people, over Israel; now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD.
Who acts: Samuel, LORD, me, thou · What happens: say, send, anoint, be, hearken, word · To what, where: me, thee, king, LORD · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 15:1 · 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 (Samuel, LORD, me, 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 said | cc |
| 2 | Samuel | Samuel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 Saul | case |
| 5 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 sent | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 sent | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 LORD | det |
| 9 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | nsubj |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 sent | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 anoint | mark |
| 13 | anoint | anoint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sent | xcomp |
| 14 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 anoint | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 king | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 king | cop |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 anoint | xcomp |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 people | case |
| 19 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 people | nmod:poss |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 king | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Israel | punct |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 Israel | case |
| 23 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 people | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 hearken | punct |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 hearken | advmod |
| 26 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 27 hearken | advmod |
| 27 | hearken | hearken | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 28 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 hearken | nsubj |
| 29 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 31 voice | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 voice | det |
| 31 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hearken | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 words | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 words | det |
| 34 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 voice | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 LORD | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 LORD | det |
| 37 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 words | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Samuel | unto Saul | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | send | past | the LORD | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | anoint | to-infinitive | me not said here | thee | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | me not said here | king | over LORD's people over Israel | tree rules | |||
| 5 | hearken | infinitive | thou | now | unto the voice of the words of the LORD; therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | word | the LORD | nom word «communication 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
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר שְׁמוּאֵל֙ אֶל־שָׁא֔וּל אֹתִ֨י שָׁלַ֤ח יְהוָה֙ לִמְשָׁחֳךָ֣ לְמֶ֔לֶךְ עַל־עַמּ֖וֹ עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְעַתָּ֣ה שְׁמַ֔ע לְק֖וֹל דִּבְרֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃ס
1 Samuel 15:1: 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:382 of Mova's parse database.
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