1 Samuel 3:2 · JPS 1917

And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place — now his eyes had begun to wax dim, that he could not see—

Who acts: vision, eyes, Eli · What happens: come, pass, lay down, begin, wax, not see · To what, where: Eli, place

This is 1 Samuel 3:2 · 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 (vision, eyes, Eli), 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 came	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pass	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 laid	punct
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 laid	mark
11	Eli	Eli	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 laid	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 laid	aux:pass
13	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 pass	advcl
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 laid	compound:prt
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 place	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 place	nmod:poss
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laid	obl
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 begun	punct
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 begun	advmod
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eyes	nmod:poss
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 begun	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 begun	aux
23	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 came	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 wax	mark
25	wax	wax	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 begun	xcomp
26	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 wax	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 see	punct
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 see	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 see	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 see	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 see	advmod
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 dim	advcl
33	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 begun	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	vision					tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	vision not said here			time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lay down	past · passive		Eli	Eli's place			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in place=Destination
4	begin	past · perfect	Eli's eyes			now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	wax	to-infinitive	Eli's eyes not said here				dim property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not see	could	Eli					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

וַֽיְהִי֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא וְעֵלִ֖י שֹׁכֵ֣ב בִּמְקֹמ֑וֹוְעֵינָיו֙ הֵחֵ֣לּוּ כֵה֔וֹת לֹ֥א יוּכַ֖ל לִרְאֽוֹת׃

1 Samuel 3:2: 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:70 of Mova's parse database.

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