1 Samuel 25:41 · JPS 1917
And she arose, and bowed down with her face to the earth, and said: 'Behold, thy handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.'
Who acts: wife, handmaid · What happens: arise, bow down, say, be, wash · To what, where: servant, feet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Samuel 25:41 · 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 (wife, handmaid), 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 arose | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arose | nsubj |
| 3 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bowed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bowed | cc |
| 6 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arose | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 bowed | compound:prt |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 face | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bowed | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 earth | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 earth | det |
| 13 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bowed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arose | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 servant | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 servant | punct |
| 19 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 25 servant | discourse |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Behold | punct |
| 21 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 handmaid | nmod:poss |
| 22 | handmaid | handmaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 servant | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 servant | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 servant | det |
| 25 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 wash | mark |
| 27 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 servant | acl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 feet | det |
| 29 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 wash | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 servants | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 servants | det |
| 32 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 feet | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 lord | case |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 lord | nmod:poss |
| 35 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 servants | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arose | punct |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- other
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=other, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | wife | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bow down | past | wife not said here | with wife's face; to the earth | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | wife not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | thy handmaid | a servant | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wash | to-infinitive | wife not said here | the feet of the servants of my lord | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=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
וַתָּ֕קָם וַתִּשְׁתַּ֥חוּ אַפַּ֖יִם אָ֑רְצָה וַתֹּ֗אמֶר הִנֵּ֤ה אֲמָֽתְךָ֙ לְשִׁפְחָ֔ה לִרְחֹ֕ץ רַגְלֵ֖י עַבְדֵ֥י אֲדֹנִֽי׃
1 Samuel 25:41: 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:763 of Mova's parse database.
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