1 Samuel 1:4 · JPS 1917

And it came to pass upon a day, when Elkanah sacrificed, that he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions;

Who acts: city, Elkanah · What happens: come, pass, sacrifice, give · To what, where: portions, Peninnah

This is 1 Samuel 1:4 · 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 (city, Elkanah), 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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pass	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sacrificed	punct
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 sacrificed	mark
11	Elkanah	Elkanah	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sacrificed	nsubj
12	sacrificed	sacrifice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 gave	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	nsubj
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	ccomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Peninnah	case
18	Peninnah	Peninnah	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wife	nmod:poss
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Peninnah	nmod:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sons	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sons	cc
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 sons	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 sons	det:predet
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sons	nmod:poss
26	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 Peninnah	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 daughters	cc
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 daughters	nmod:poss
29	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sons	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 portions	punct
31	portions	portion	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gave	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	come	past	city				tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	city not said here			day	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sacrifice	past	Elkanah				vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	give	past	Elkanah	portions	Peninnah Elkanah's wife and Peninnah's sons and Peninnah's daughters		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent portion=Theme to peninnah=Recipient

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

וַיְהִ֣י הַיּ֔וֹם וַיִּזְבַּ֖ח אֶלְקָנָ֑ה וְנָתַ֞ן לִפְנִנָּ֣ה אִשְׁתּ֗וֹ וּֽלְכָל־בָּנֶ֛יהָ וּבְנוֹתֶ֖יהָ מָנֽוֹת׃

1 Samuel 1:4: 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:4 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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