1 Samuel 16:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

And the elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said: 'Comest thou peaceably?'

Who acts: elders, thou · What happens: come, meet, tremble, say · To what, where: LORD · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 16:4 · 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 (elders, thou), 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	_	7 came	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 elders	det
3	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 city	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 city	det
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 elders	nmod
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 meet	mark
9	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 meet	obj
11	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 came	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 Comest	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 Comest	punct
17	Comest	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
18	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 Comest	nsubj
19	peaceably	peaceably	ADV	_	17 Comest	advmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 Comest	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 Comest	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the elders of the city			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	to-infinitive	the elders of the city not said here	LORD		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
3	tremble	gerund	the elders of the city not said here			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the elders of the city not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	come	present	thou		peaceably property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

וַיַּ֣עַשׂ שְׁמוּאֵ֗ל אֵ֚ת אֲשֶׁ֣ר דִּבֶּ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה וַיָּבֹ֖א בֵּ֣ית לָ֑חֶם בֵּ֣ית לָ֑חֶם וַיֶּחֶרְד֞וּ זִקְנֵ֤י הָעִיר֙ לִקְרָאת֔וֹ וַיֹּ֖אמֶר שָׁלֹ֥ם בּוֹאֶֽךָ׃

1 Samuel 16:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

This verse in JPS 1917:

And Samuel did that which the LORD spoke, and came to Beth-lehem.
And the elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said: 'Comest thou peaceably?'

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1SA:426 of Mova's parse database.

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