1 Samuel 2:23 · JPS 1917
And he said unto them: 'Why do ye such things? for I hear evil reports concerning you from all this people.
Who acts: Eli, I · What happens: say, hear · To what, where: evil reports · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 2:23 · 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 (Eli, I), 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 | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 8 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 do | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 do | nsubj |
| 11 | such | such | DET | _ | 12 things | det:predet |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 do | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 hear | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 hear | nsubj |
| 16 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | advcl |
| 17 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 reports | amod |
| 18 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hear | obj |
| 19 | concerning | concern | ADP | _ | 20 you | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 hear | obl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 people | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 people | det:predet |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 people | det |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hear | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=ask, indirect=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Eli | unto sons = son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | present | I | evil reports | from all people; you obl | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent report=Topic from people=Source |
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
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לָהֶ֔ם לָ֥מָּה תַעֲשׂ֖וּן כַּדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֑לֶּה אֲשֶׁ֨ר אָנֹכִ֤י שֹׁמֵ֙עַ֙ אֶת־דִּבְרֵיכֶ֣ם רָעִ֔ים מֵאֵ֖ת כָּל־הָעָ֥ם אֵֽלֶּה׃
1 Samuel 2:23: 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:54 of Mova's parse database.
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