1 Samuel 17:9 · JPS 1917
If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.'
Who acts: champion, we, I, ye · What happens: be, fight, kill, prevail, serve · To what, where: me, servants, champion, us
This is 1 Samuel 17:9 · 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 (champion, we, I, ye), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 able | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 able | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | cop |
| 4 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 servants | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fight | mark |
| 6 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 fight | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kill | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kill | cc |
| 11 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fight | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 kill | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 able | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 servants | advmod |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 servants | aux |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 servants | nsubj |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 servants | cop |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 servants | nmod:poss |
| 19 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 servants | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 servants | cc |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 prevail | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 prevail | nsubj |
| 24 | prevail | prevail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 servants | advcl |
| 25 | against | against | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 prevail | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 kill | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 kill | cc |
| 29 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 prevail | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 kill | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 prevail | punct |
| 32 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 servants | advmod |
| 33 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 servants | aux |
| 34 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 servants | nsubj |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 servants | cop |
| 36 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 servants | nmod:poss |
| 37 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 servants | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 serve | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 serve | cc |
| 40 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 servants | conj |
| 41 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 serve | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 servants | punct |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 servants | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | champion | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fight | to-infinitive | champion not said here | with me | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | kill | infinitive | champion not said here | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | future | we | your servants but our servants | then | tree rules | |||
| 5 | prevail a condition, not said to happen | present | I | against champion | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against he=Location | ||||
| 6 | kill | infinitive | I not said here | champion | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is a | shall | ye | our servants | then | tree rules | |||
| 8 | serve | infinitive | ye not said here | us | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Attribute |
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
אִם־יוּכַ֞ל לְהִלָּחֵ֤ם אִתִּי֙ וְהִכָּ֔נִי וְהָיִ֥ינוּ לָכֶ֖ם לַעֲבָדִ֑ים וְאִם־אֲנִ֤י אֽוּכַל־לוֹ֙ וְהִכִּיתִ֔יו וִהְיִ֤יתֶם לָ֙נוּ֙ לַעֲבָדִ֔ים וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֖ם אֹתָֽנוּ׃
1 Samuel 17:9: 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:460 of Mova's parse database.
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