1 Samuel 3:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no frequent vision.
Who acts: word, frequent vision · What happens: be, word · To what, where: LORD
This is 1 Samuel 3:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (word, frequent vision), 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 | _ | 8 precious | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 precious | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 LORD | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 LORD | det |
| 6 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 word | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 precious | cop |
| 8 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 days | case |
| 10 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 days | det |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 precious | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 was | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 precious | parataxis |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 vision | det |
| 16 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 vision | amod |
| 17 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 was | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 precious | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the word of the LORD | day | precious property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | past | no frequent vision | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | word | the LORD | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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
וְהַנַּ֧עַר שְׁמוּאֵ֛ל מְשָׁרֵ֥ת אֶת־יְהוָ֖ה לִפְנֵ֣י עֵלִ֑י וּדְבַר־יְהוָ֗ה הָיָ֤ה יָקָר֙ בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵ֔ם אֵ֥ין חָז֖וֹן נִפְרָֽץ׃ס
1 Samuel 3:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli.
- And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no frequent vision.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1SA:69 of Mova's parse database.
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