1 Samuel 18:8 · JPS 1917
And Saul was very wroth, and this saying displeased him; and he said: 'They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands; and all he lacketh is the kingdom!'
Who acts: Saul, saying, women, all · What happens: be, displease, say, ascribe, lack · To what, where: Saul, ten thousands, me, kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 18:8 · 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 (Saul, saying, women, all), 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 wroth | cc |
| 2 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wroth | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wroth | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 wroth | advmod |
| 5 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 displeased | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 displeased | cc |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 saying | det |
| 9 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 displeased | nsubj |
| 10 | displeased | displease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wroth | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 displeased | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wroth | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 ascribed | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 ascribed | punct |
| 18 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ascribed | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 ascribed | aux |
| 20 | ascribed | ascribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 said | ccomp |
| 21 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 22 David | case |
| 22 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 ascribed | obl |
| 23 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 thousands | nummod |
| 24 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ascribed | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 ascribed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 ascribed | cc |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 ascribed | obl |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 ascribed | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 ascribed | aux |
| 31 | ascribed | ascribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 ascribed | conj |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 thousands | cc |
| 33 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 ascribed | conj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 kingdom | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 kingdom | cc |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 kingdom | nsubj |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 lacketh | nsubj |
| 38 | lacketh | lack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 all | acl:relcl |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 kingdom | cop |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 kingdom | det |
| 41 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | conj |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 41 kingdom | punct |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 kingdom | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Saul | wroth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | displease | past | this saying | Saul | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Saul | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | ascribe | present · perfect | women = woman | ten thousands | unto David | tree rules | |||
| 5 | ascribe | present · perfect | women = woman | me | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | lack | present | Saul | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | is a | present | all | the kingdom | 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
וַיִּ֨חַר לְשָׁא֜וּל מְאֹ֗ד וַיֵּ֤רַע בְּעֵינָיו֙ הַדָּבָ֣ר הַזֶּ֔ה וַיֹּ֗אמֶר נָתְנ֤וּ לְדָוִד֙ רְבָב֔וֹת וְלִ֥י נָתְנ֖וּ הָאֲלָפִ֑ים וְע֥וֹד ל֖וֹ אַ֥ךְ הַמְּלוּכָֽה׃
1 Samuel 18:8: 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:522 of Mova's parse database.
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