1 Samuel 15:8 · JPS 1917
And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
Who acts: Saul · What happens: take, destroy · To what, where: Agag, people
This is 1 Samuel 15:8 · 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 took | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Agag | Agag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Agag | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Amalekites | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Amalekites | det |
| 9 | Amalekites | Amalekite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 king | nmod |
| 10 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 took | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 destroyed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 destroyed | cc |
| 13 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 14 destroyed | advmod |
| 14 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 people | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 people | det |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 destroyed | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 edge | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 edge | det |
| 20 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 destroyed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sword | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sword | det |
| 23 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 edge | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Saul | Agag | alive property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument agag=Destination | |||
| 2 | destroy | past | Saul not said here | all people | with the edge of the sword; utterly property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent people=Patient with edge=Instrument |
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
וַיִּתְפֹּ֛שׂ אֶת־אֲגַ֥ג מֶֽלֶךְ־עֲמָלֵ֖ק חָ֑י וְאֶת־כָּל־הָעָ֖ם הֶחֱרִ֥ים לְפִי־חָֽרֶב׃
1 Samuel 15:8: 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:389 of Mova's parse database.
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