1 Samuel 15:32 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
And Agag said: 'Surely the bitterness of death is at hand.'
Who acts: Agag, bitterness · What happens: say, be · To what, where: hand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 15:32 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (Agag, bitterness), 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 | Agag | Agag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 6 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 13 hand | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bitterness | det |
| 8 | bitterness | bitterness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hand | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 death | case |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bitterness | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hand | cop |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | 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 | Agag | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the bitterness of death | hand | surely property | 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 הַגִּ֤ישׁוּ אֵלַי֙ אֶת־אֲגַג֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ עֲמָלֵ֔ק וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ אֵלָ֔יו אֲגַ֖ג מַעֲדַנֹּ֑ת וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲגָ֔ג אָכֵ֖ן סָ֥ר מַר־הַמָּֽוֶת׃ס
1 Samuel 15:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Then said Samuel: 'Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites.' And Agag came unto him in chains.
- And Agag said: 'Surely the bitterness of death is at hand.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1SA:417 of Mova's parse database.
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