1 Samuel 15:9 · JPS 1917

But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, even the young of the second birth, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them; but every thing that was of no account and feeble, that they destroyed utterly.

Who acts: Saul, thing, people · What happens: spare, be, not destroy, destroy · To what, where: Agag, people, that

This is 1 Samuel 15:9 · 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, thing, people), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 spared	cc
2	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 spared	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 people	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 people	det
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Saul	conj
6	spared	spare	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Agag	Agag	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 spared	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 best	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 best	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 best	det
11	best	best	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Agag	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 sheep	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sheep	det
14	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 best	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 oxen	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 oxen	cc
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 oxen	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 oxen	det
19	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sheep	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 young	punct
21	even	even	ADV	_	23 young	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 young	det
23	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 oxen	appos
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 birth	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 birth	det
26	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 birth	amod
27	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 young	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lambs	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 lambs	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 lambs	det
31	lambs	lamb	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 Agag	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 all	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 all	cc
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 Agag	conj
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 good	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 good	cop
37	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 all	acl:relcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 destroy	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 destroy	cc
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 destroy	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 destroy	advmod
42	utterly	utterly	ADV	_	43 destroy	advmod
43	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 spared	conj
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 destroy	obj
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	59 destroyed	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	59 destroyed	cc
47	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	48 thing	det
48	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 destroyed	dislocated
49	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 account	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 account	cop
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 account	case
52	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	53 account	det
53	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 thing	acl:relcl
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 feeble	cc
55	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 account	conj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 destroyed	punct
57	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	59 destroyed	obj
58	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 destroyed	nsubj
59	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spared	conj
60	utterly	utterly	ADV	_	59 destroyed	advmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spared	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spare	past	Saul and the people	Agag and the best of the sheep and the oxen and the lambs		vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent agag=Asset
2	is	past			good property	tree rules
3	not destroy	would	Saul and the people not said here	people	utterly property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	is	past	every thing		of no account	tree rules
5	be		every thing not said here			tree rules
6	destroy	past	people	that	every thing dislocated; utterly property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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

וַיַּחְמֹל֩ שָׁא֨וּל וְהָעָ֜ם עַל־אֲגָ֗ג וְעַל־מֵיטַ֣ב הַצֹּאן֩ וְהַבָּקָ֨ר וְהַמִּשְׁנִ֤ים וְעַל־הַכָּרִים֙ וְעַל־כָּל־הַטּ֔וֹב וְלֹ֥א אָב֖וּ הַחֲרִימָ֑ם וְכָל־הַמְּלָאכָ֛ה נְמִבְזָ֥ה וְנָמֵ֖ס אֹתָ֥הּ הֶחֱרִֽימוּ׃פ

1 Samuel 15:9: 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:390 of Mova's parse database.

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