1 Samuel 15:19 · JPS 1917
Wherefore then didst thou not hearken to the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst that which was evil in the sight of the LORD?'
Who acts: thou · What happens: not hearken, fly, be, sight · To what, where: spoil, sight, LORD
This is 1 Samuel 15:19 · 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 (thou), 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 | Wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 hearken | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 hearken | advmod |
| 3 | didst | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hearken | aux |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 hearken | nsubj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 hearken | advmod |
| 6 | hearken | hearken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 voice | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 voice | det |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hearken | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 LORD | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 LORD | det |
| 12 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 voice | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fly | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 fly | cc |
| 15 | didst | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fly | aux |
| 16 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hearken | conj |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 spoil | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 spoil | det |
| 19 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fly | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 didst | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 didst | cc |
| 22 | didst | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fly | conj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 didst | obj |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 evil | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 evil | cop |
| 26 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 that | acl:relcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 sight | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sight | det |
| 29 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 evil | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 LORD | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 LORD | det |
| 32 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 sight | nmod |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 hearken | punct |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 hearken | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=q, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hearken | past · do-support | thou | then | to the voice of the LORD; wherefore property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fly | past · do-support | thou not said here | the spoil | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon spoil=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the sight of the LORD | evil property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sight | the LORD | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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
וְלָ֥מָּה לֹא־שָׁמַ֖עְתָּ בְּק֣וֹל יְהוָ֑ה וַתַּ֙עַט֙ אֶל־הַשָּׁלָ֔ל וַתַּ֥עַשׂ הָרַ֖ע בְּעֵינֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃ס
1 Samuel 15:19: 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:401 of Mova's parse database.
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