1 Samuel 15:5 · JPS 1917
And Saul came to the city of Amalek, and lay in wait in the valley.
Who acts: Saul · What happens: come, lie · To what, where: city, wait
This is 1 Samuel 15:5 · 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), 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 came | cc |
| 2 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Amalek | case |
| 8 | Amalek | Amalek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 city | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lay | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lay | cc |
| 11 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 wait | case |
| 13 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 valley | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 valley | det |
| 16 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Saul | the city of Amalek | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | Saul not said here | wait | in the valley | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wait=Location |
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
וַיָּבֹ֥א שָׁא֖וּל עַד־עִ֣יר עֲמָלֵ֑ק וַיָּ֖רֶב בַּנָּֽחַל׃
1 Samuel 15:5: 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:386 of Mova's parse database.
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