1 Samuel 4:2 · JPS 1917

And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel; and when the battle was spread, Israel was smitten before the Philistines; and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.

Who acts: Philistines · What happens: put, spread, smite, slay · To what, where: Philistines, array, battle, Israel, thousand men, field

This is 1 Samuel 4:2 · 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 (Philistines), 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 put	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Philistines	det
3	Philistines	philistine	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 put	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 array	case
7	array	array	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
8	against	against	ADP	_	9 Israel	case
9	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 smitten	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 smitten	cc
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 spread	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 battle	det
14	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spread	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 spread	aux:pass
16	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 smitten	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spread	punct
18	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 smitten	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 smitten	aux:pass
20	smitten	smite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 put	conj
21	before	before	ADP	_	23 Philistines	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Philistines	det
23	Philistines	philistine	PROPN	Number=Plur	20 smitten	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 slew	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 slew	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 slew	nsubj
27	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 army	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 army	det
30	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 slew	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 field	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 field	det
33	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 slew	obl
34	about	about	ADV	_	36 thousand	advmod
35	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 thousand	compound
36	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 men	nummod
37	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 slew	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	the Philistines	Philistines = philistine	array		against Israel	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in array=Destination
2	spread	past · passive		the battle				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	smite	past · passive		Israel		before the Philistines		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	slay	past	Philistines = philistine	thousand men	the field		of the army	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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

וַיַּעַרְכ֨וּ פְלִשְׁתִּ֜ים לִקְרַ֣את יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל וַתִּטֹּשׁ֙ הַמִּלְחָמָ֔ה וַיִּנָּ֥גֶף יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לִפְנֵ֣י פְלִשְׁתִּ֑ים וַיַּכּ֤וּ בַמַּֽעֲרָכָה֙ בַּשָּׂדֶ֔ה כְּאַרְבַּ֥עַת אֲלָפִ֖ים אִֽישׁ׃

1 Samuel 4:2: 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:97 of Mova's parse database.

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