1 Samuel 15:14 · JPS 1917

And Samuel said: 'What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?'

Who acts: Samuel, I · What happens: say, mean, hear · To what, where: bleating, oxen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 15:14 · 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, I), 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	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 meaneth	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 meaneth	punct
6	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 meaneth	nsubj
7	meaneth	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 meaneth	advmod
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 bleating	det
10	bleating	bleating	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meaneth	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 sheep	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sheep	det
13	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bleating	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 ears	case
15	mine	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 ears	nmod:poss
16	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bleating	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lowing	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lowing	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lowing	det
20	lowing	lowing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bleating	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 oxen	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 oxen	det
23	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lowing	nmod
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 hear	obj
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 hear	nsubj
26	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 oxen	acl:relcl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 meaneth	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: disagree
voice: character
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: changed act=disagree, indirect=1

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Samuel				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mean	present		this bleating of the sheep and the lowing of the oxen	then	in mine ears	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot bleating=Theme in ear=Attribute
3	hear	present	I	the oxen			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus

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

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל וּמֶ֛ה קֽוֹל־הַצֹּ֥אן הַזֶּ֖ה בְּאָזְנָ֑י וְק֣וֹל הַבָּקָ֔ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר אָנֹכִ֖י שֹׁמֵֽעַ׃

1 Samuel 15:14: 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:395 of Mova's parse database.

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