1 Samuel 25:17 · JPS 1917
Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house; for he is such a base fellow, that one cannot speak to him.'
Who acts: you, thou, man, one · What happens: know, consider, do, determine, be, not speak · To what, where: evil, base fellow, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 25:17 · 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, thou, man, one), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 know | advmod |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 know | advmod |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 consider | cc |
| 5 | consider | consider | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | conj |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 do | obj |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 consider | ccomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 determined | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 determined | mark |
| 12 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 determined | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 determined | aux:pass |
| 14 | determined | determine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 know | advcl |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 master | case |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 master | nmod:poss |
| 17 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 determined | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 house | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 house | cc |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 house | det:predet |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 house | nmod:poss |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 master | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 fellow | punct |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 fellow | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 fellow | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 fellow | cop |
| 28 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 fellow | det:predet |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 fellow | det |
| 30 | base | base | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 fellow | amod |
| 31 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 speak | punct |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 speak | mark |
| 34 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 speak | nsubj |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 speak | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 speak | advmod |
| 37 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 fellow | advcl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 speak | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 41 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- warn
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | imperative | you not said here | now | therefore property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | consider | infinitive | you not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | future | thou | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | determine | present · passive | evil | against our master and man's house | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | man | such base fellow | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not speak speech: other | can | one | man | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-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
וְעַתָּ֗ה דְּעִ֤י וּרְאִי֙ מַֽה־תַּעֲשִׂ֔י כִּֽי־כָלְתָ֧ה הָרָעָ֛ה אֶל־אֲדֹנֵ֖ינוּ וְעַ֣ל כָּל־בֵּית֑וֹ וְהוּא֙ בֶּן־בְּלִיַּ֔עַל מִדַּבֵּ֖ר אֵלָֽיו׃
1 Samuel 25:17: 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:738 of Mova's parse database.
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