1 Samuel 16:15 · JPS 1917
And Saul's servants said unto him: 'Behold now, an evil spirit from God terrifieth thee.
Who acts: servants, evil spirit · What happens: say, terrify · To what, where: Saul, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 16:15 · 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 (servants, evil spirit), 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 | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 2 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 servants | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Saul | case |
| 4 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | iobj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 terrifieth | punct |
| 10 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 18 terrifieth | discourse |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | _ | 18 terrifieth | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Behold | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 spirit | det |
| 14 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 spirit | amod |
| 15 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 terrifieth | nsubj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 God | case |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 spirit | nmod |
| 18 | terrifieth | terrify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 19 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 terrifieth | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- warn
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=warn, form=decl, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Saul's servants | Saul | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | terrify | present | a evil spirit from God | thee | now | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thou=Experiencer |
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
וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ עַבְדֵֽי־שָׁא֖וּל אֵלָ֑יו הִנֵּה־נָ֧א רֽוּחַ־אֱלֹהִ֛ים רָעָ֖ה מְבַעִתֶּֽךָ׃
1 Samuel 16:15: 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:443 of Mova's parse database.
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