1 Samuel 16:16 · JPS 1917

Let our lord now command thy servants, that are before thee, to seek out a man who is a skilful player on the harp; and it shall be, when the evil spirit from God cometh upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.'

Who acts: lord, servants, man, evil spirit, thou · What happens: let, command, be, seek out, come, play · To what, where: servants, man, skilful player, harp · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 16:16 · 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 (lord, servants, man, 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 lord	nmod:poss
3	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	nsubj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 command	advmod
5	command	command	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	ccomp
6	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 servants	nmod:poss
7	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 command	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thee	punct
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 thee	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 thee	cop
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 thee	case
12	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 servants	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seek	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	15 seek	mark
15	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 command	advcl
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 seek	compound:prt
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seek	obj
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 player	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 player	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 player	det
22	skilful	skilful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 player	amod
23	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 man	acl:relcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 harp	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 harp	det
26	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 player	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 be	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 be	cc
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 be	nsubj
30	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 be	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 command	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 be	punct
33	when	when	SCONJ	_	39 cometh	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 spirit	det
35	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 spirit	amod
36	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cometh	nsubj
37	from	from	ADP	_	38 God	case
38	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 spirit	nmod
39	cometh	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 be	advcl
40	upon	upon	ADP	_	41 thee	case
41	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	39 cometh	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 play	punct
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 play	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 play	nsubj
45	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 play	aux
46	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 cometh	ccomp
47	with	with	ADP	_	49 hand	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 hand	nmod:poss
49	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 play	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 well	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 well	cc
52	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	55 well	nsubj
53	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	55 well	aux
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 well	cop
55	well	well	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 be	conj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
57	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	our lord					tree rules
2	command	infinitive	our lord not said here	thy servants		now		vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent servant=Eventuality
3	is	present	thy servants			before thee		tree rules
4	seek out	to-infinitive	our lord not said here	a man				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
5	is a	present	a man	a skilful player	the harp			tree rules
6	come	present	the evil spirit from God				upon thee	tree rules
7	play	shall	LORD				with LORD's hand	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hand=Theme
8	is	shall	thou				well 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

יֹאמַר־נָ֤א אֲדֹנֵ֙נוּ֙ עֲבָדֶ֣יךָ לְפָנֶ֔יךָ יְבַקְשׁ֕וּ אִ֕ישׁ יֹדֵ֖עַ מְנַגֵּ֣ן בַּכִּנּ֑וֹר וְהָיָ֗ה בִּֽהְי֨וֹת עָלֶ֤יךָ רֽוּחַ־אֱלֹהִים֙ רָעָ֔ה וְנִגֵּ֥ן בְּיָד֖וֹ וְט֥וֹב לָֽךְ׃פ

1 Samuel 16:16: 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:444 of Mova's parse database.

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