1 Samuel 25:8 · JPS 1917

Ask thy young men, and they will tell thee; wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes; for we come on a good day; give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thy hand, unto thy servants, and to thy son David.'

Who acts: you, shepherds, young men, we, I, whatsoever · What happens: ask, tell, let, find, come, give · To what, where: young men, thee, favour, eyes, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 25:8 · 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 (you, shepherds, young men, we), 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	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 men	nmod:poss
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 men	amod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ask	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tell	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	aux
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	conj
10	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 tell	iobj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
12	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	13 let	advmod
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 men	det
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 men	amod
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 let	obj
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
18	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 eyes	case
20	thine	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 eyes	nmod:poss
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 find	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 come	mark
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 come	nsubj
25	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	advcl
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 day	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 day	det
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 day	amod
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 give	punct
31	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 pray	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 pray	nsubj
34	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 give	parataxis
35	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	34 pray	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 cometh	punct
37	whatsoever	whatsoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 cometh	nsubj
38	cometh	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 pray	ccomp
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 hand	case
40	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	41 hand	nmod:poss
41	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 cometh	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 servants	punct
43	unto	unto	ADP	_	45 servants	case
44	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	45 servants	nmod:poss
45	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 give	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 son	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 son	cc
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 son	case
49	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	50 son	nmod:poss
50	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 servants	conj
51	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 son	appos
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ask	punct
53	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Ask	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		thy young men				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	future	shepherds = shepherd		thee				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient
3	let	infinitive		the young men				wherefore property	tree rules
4	find	infinitive	the young men not said here	favour		thine eyes			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic
5	come	present	we				day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	give	infinitive						unto thy servants and thy son	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	pray	present	I	thee					tree rules
8	come	present	whatsoever			thy hand			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hand=Initial_Location

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

שְׁאַ֨ל אֶת־נְעָרֶ֜יךָ וְיַגִּ֣ידוּ לָ֗ךְ וְיִמְצְא֨וּ הַנְּעָרִ֥ים חֵן֙ בְּעֵינֶ֔יךָ כִּֽי־עַל־י֥וֹם ט֖וֹב בָּ֑נוּ תְּנָה־נָּ֗א אֵת֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר תִּמְצָ֤א יָֽדְךָ֙ לַעֲבָדֶ֔יךָ וּלְבִנְךָ֖ לְדָוִֽד׃

1 Samuel 25:8: 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:729 of Mova's parse database.

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