1 Samuel 15:21 · JPS 1917
But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.'
Who acts: people · What happens: take, sacrifice · To what, where: Gilgal
This is 1 Samuel 15:21 · 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 (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 | _ | 4 took | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 spoil | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spoil | det |
| 7 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sheep | punct |
| 9 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spoil | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 oxen | cc |
| 11 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sheep | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chief | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chief | det |
| 14 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spoil | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 things | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 things | det |
| 17 | devoted | devoted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 things | amod |
| 18 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 chief | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sacrifice | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 sacrifice | mark |
| 21 | sacrifice | sacrifice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | advcl |
| 22 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 24 LORD | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 LORD | det |
| 24 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sacrifice | obl |
| 25 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 God | nmod:poss |
| 26 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 LORD | appos |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 Gilgal | case |
| 28 | Gilgal | Gilgal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sacrifice | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the people | of the spoil | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent of spoil=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | sacrifice | to-infinitive | the people not said here | Gilgal | unto the LORD | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
וַיִּקַּ֨ח הָעָ֧ם מֵהַשָּׁלָ֛ל צֹ֥אן וּבָקָ֖ר רֵאשִׁ֣ית הַחֵ֑רֶם לִזְבֹּ֛חַ לַֽיהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ בַּגִּלְגָּֽל׃
1 Samuel 15:21: 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:403 of Mova's parse database.
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