1 Samuel 15:20 · JPS 1917
And Saul said unto Samuel: 'Yea, I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
Who acts: Saul, I, LORD · What happens: say, hearken, go, send, bring, destroy · To what, where: way, Agag, Amalekites · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 15:20 · 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, I, LORD), 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 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 Samuel | case |
| 5 | Samuel | Samuel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 hearkened | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 hearkened | punct |
| 8 | Yea | yea | INTJ | _ | 12 hearkened | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Yea | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 hearkened | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hearkened | aux |
| 12 | hearkened | hearken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hearkened | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 LORD | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 LORD | det |
| 18 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 voice | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gone | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gone | cc |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 gone | aux |
| 22 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 hearkened | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 way | det |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gone | obj |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 sent | obj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 LORD | det |
| 27 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 sent | nsubj |
| 28 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 way | acl:relcl |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 sent | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 brought | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 brought | cc |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 brought | aux |
| 33 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 hearkened | conj |
| 34 | Agag | Agag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 brought | obj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 king | det |
| 36 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Agag | appos |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Amalek | case |
| 38 | Amalek | Amalek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 king | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 destroyed | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 destroyed | cc |
| 41 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 destroyed | aux |
| 42 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 43 destroyed | advmod |
| 43 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 hearkened | conj |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Amalekites | det |
| 45 | Amalekites | Amalekites | PROPN | Number=Plur | 43 destroyed | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Saul | unto Samuel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hearken | present · perfect | I | to the voice of the LORD | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | present · perfect | I not said here | the way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 4 | send | past | the LORD | the way | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent which=Destination i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bring | present · perfect | I not said here | Agag | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument agag=Destination | ||||
| 6 | destroy | present · perfect | I not said here | the Amalekites | utterly property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amalekites=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
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר שָׁא֜וּל אֶל־שְׁמוּאֵ֗ל אֲשֶׁ֤ר שָׁמַ֙עְתִּי֙ בְּק֣וֹל יְהוָ֔ה וָאֵלֵ֕ךְ בַּדֶּ֖רֶךְ אֲשֶׁר־שְׁלָחַ֣נִי יְהוָ֑ה וָאָבִ֗יא אֶת־אֲגַג֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ עֲמָלֵ֔ק וְאֶת־עֲמָלֵ֖ק הֶחֱרַֽמְתִּי׃
1 Samuel 15:20: 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:402 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.402/