1 Samuel 15:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

And Samuel said: 'Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in hearkening to the voice of the LORD?

Who acts: Samuel, LORD · What happens: say, have, burn, hearken · To what, where: great delight, burnt offerings · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 15:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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, 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	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	_	6 Hath	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 Hath	punct
6	Hath	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 LORD	det
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Hath	nsubj
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 great	advmod
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 delight	amod
11	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Hath	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 offerings	case
13	burnt	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 offerings	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 burnt	punct
15	offerings	offering	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 delight	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sacrifices	cc
17	sacrifices	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 offerings	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hearkening	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 hearkening	mark
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 hearkening	mark
21	hearkening	hearken	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 as	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 voice	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 voice	det
24	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hearkening	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 LORD	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 LORD	det
27	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 voice	nmod
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 Hath	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=1

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Samuel				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	the LORD	great delight	burnt offerings and sacrifices		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delight=Patient
3	burn	participle					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hearken	gerund	the LORD not said here			to the voice of the LORD	tree rules

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 שְׁמוּאֵ֗ל הַחֵ֤פֶץ לַֽיהוָה֙ בְּעֹל֣וֹת וּזְבָחִ֔ים כִּשְׁמֹ֖עַ בְּק֣וֹל יְהוָ֑ה הִנֵּ֤ה שְׁמֹ֙עַ֙ מִזֶּ֣בַח ט֔וֹב לְהַקְשִׁ֖יב מֵחֵ֥לֶב אֵילִֽים׃

1 Samuel 15:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

This verse in JPS 1917:

And Samuel said: 'Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in hearkening to the voice of the LORD?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1SA:404 of Mova's parse database.

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