1 Samuel 28:9 · JPS 1917

And the woman said unto him: 'Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that divine by a ghost or a familiar spirit out of the land; wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?'

Who acts: woman, thou, Saul, me · What happens: say, know, do, cut off, divine, lay · To what, where: those, land, snare, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Samuel 28:9 · 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 (woman, thou, Saul, me), 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	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	unto	unto	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 knowest	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 knowest	punct
9	Behold	behold	INTJ	_	12 knowest	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Behold	punct
11	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 knowest	nsubj
12	knowest	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 done	obj
14	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 done	nsubj
15	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 done	aux
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 knowest	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cut	punct
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 cut	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cut	nsubj
20	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 cut	aux
21	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 knowest	ccomp
22	off	off	ADP	_	21 cut	compound:prt
23	those	those	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 cut	obj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 divine	nsubj
25	divine	divine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 those	acl:relcl
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 ghost	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 ghost	det
28	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 divine	obl
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 spirit	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 spirit	det
31	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 spirit	amod
32	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ghost	conj
33	out	out	ADP	_	36 land	case
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 land	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 land	det
36	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 divine	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 layest	punct
38	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	40 layest	advmod
39	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 layest	advmod
40	layest	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
41	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	40 layest	nsubj
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 snare	det
43	snare	snare	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 layest	obj
44	for	for	ADP	_	46 life	case
45	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 life	nmod:poss
46	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 layest	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 cause	punct
48	to	to	PART	_	49 cause	mark
49	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 layest	advcl
50	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 cause	obj
51	to	to	PART	_	52 die	mark
52	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 cause	xcomp
53	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
54	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=0

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the woman				unto Saul	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know	present	thou					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	present · perfect	Saul					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	cut off	present · perfect	Saul	those				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector those=Eventuality
5	divine	present			the land		by a ghost or a familiar spirit	tree rules
6	lay	present	thou	a snare		then	for my life; wherefore property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent snare=Result for life=Beneficiary
7	cause	to-infinitive	thou not said here	me				tree rules
8	die	to-infinitive	me not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

וַתֹּ֨אמֶר הָֽאִשָּׁ֜ה אֵלָ֗יו הִנֵּ֨ה אַתָּ֤ה יָדַ֙עְתָּ֙ אֵ֣ת אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂ֣ה שָׁא֔וּל אֲשֶׁ֥ר הִכְרִ֛ית אֶת־הָאֹב֥וֹת וְאֶת־הַיִּדְּעֹנִ֖י מִן־הָאָ֑רֶץ וְלָמָ֥ה אַתָּ֛ה מִתְנַקֵּ֥שׁ בְּנַפְשִׁ֖י לַהֲמִיתֵֽנִי׃

1 Samuel 28:9: 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:819 of Mova's parse database.

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