1 Samuel 25:2 · JPS 1917

And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

Who acts: man, possessions, Carmel · What happens: be, have, shear, possess · To what, where: Carmel, thousand sheep, sheep

This is 1 Samuel 25:2 · 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 (man, possessions, Carmel), 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 was	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Maon	case
7	Maon	Maon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 man	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Carmel	punct
9	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 possessions	nmod:poss
10	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 Carmel	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Carmel	cop
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Carmel	case
13	Carmel	Carmel	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 man	acl:relcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 great	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 great	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 great	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 great	cop
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 great	advmod
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 was	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 had	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 was	conj
25	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 thousand	nummod
26	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 sheep	nummod
27	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 had	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 goats	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 goats	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 thousand	det
31	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 goats	nummod
32	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sheep	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 shearing	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 shearing	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 shearing	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 shearing	aux
37	shearing	shear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 was	conj
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 sheep	nmod:poss
39	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 shearing	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 Carmel	case
41	Carmel	Carmel	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 shearing	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a man in Maon		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Carmel's possessions		Carmel		tree rules
3	is	past	the man			great property	tree rules
4	have	past	man	thousand sheep and thousand goats			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient
5	shear	past · progressive	man	man's sheep	Carmel		vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sheep=Initial_Location
6	possess		Carmel				nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

וְאִ֨ישׁ בְּמָע֜וֹן וּמַעֲשֵׂ֣הוּ בַכַּרְמֶ֗ל וְהָאִישׁ֙ גָּד֣וֹל מְאֹ֔ד וְל֛וֹ צֹ֥אן שְׁלֹֽשֶׁת־אֲלָפִ֖ים וְאֶ֣לֶף עִזִּ֑ים וַיְהִ֛י בִּגְזֹ֥ז אֶת־צֹאנ֖וֹ בַּכַּרְמֶֽל׃

1 Samuel 25:2: 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:723 of Mova's parse database.

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