1 Samuel 16:2 · JPS 1917

And Samuel said: 'How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me.' And the LORD said: 'Take a heifer with thee, and say: I am come to sacrifice to the LORD.

Who acts: Samuel, I, Saul, LORD · What happens: say, go, hear, kill, take, come · To what, where: horn, me, heifer, LORD · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 16:2 · 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 (Samuel, I, Saul, 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	_	9 go	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
6	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 go	advmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 go	nsubj
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 hear	mark
12	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 hear	nsubj
13	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 kill	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hear	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hear	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 kill	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 kill	aux
18	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 kill	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 kill	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
22	And	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 LORD	det
24	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 Take	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 Take	punct
28	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	ccomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 heifer	det
30	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Take	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 thee	case
32	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 Take	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 say	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 say	cc
35	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 Take	conj
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 come	punct
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 come	nsubj
38	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	aux
39	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 say	ccomp
40	to	to	PART	_	41 sacrifice	mark
41	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 come	xcomp
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 LORD	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 LORD	det
44	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 sacrifice	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, polarity=none, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Samuel				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	can	I				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear a condition, not said to happen	present	Saul	horn			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	kill	future	Saul	me			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	the LORD				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	take	infinitive			a heifer	with thee	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument heifer=Destination
7	say speech: assert	infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	come	participle	I				tree rules
9	sacrifice	to-infinitive	I not said here		the LORD		vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to lord=Recipient

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

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר שְׁמוּאֵל֙ אֵ֣יךְ אֵלֵ֔ךְ וְשָׁמַ֥ע שָׁא֖וּל וַהֲרָגָ֑נִיס וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֗ה עֶגְלַ֤ת בָּקָר֙ תִּקַּ֣ח בְּיָדֶ֔ךָ וְאָ֣מַרְתָּ֔ לִזְבֹּ֥חַ לַֽיהוָ֖ה בָּֽאתִי׃

1 Samuel 16:2: 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:423 of Mova's parse database.

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