2 Kings 2:24 מְלָכִים ב

Who acts: LORD, two she bears · What happens: look, see, curse, name, come, tore · To what, where: children, name, LORD, wood, forty children

This is 2 Kings 2:24 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — LORD, two she bears — and what happens in the verse to children, name, LORD, wood, forty children, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 25 chapters of 2 Kings on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

וַיִּ֤פֶן אַֽחֲרָיו֙ וַיִּרְאֵ֔ם וַֽיְקַלְלֵ֖ם בְּשֵׁ֣ם יְהוָ֑ה וַתֵּצֶ֨אנָה שְׁתַּ֤יִם דֻּבִּים֙ מִן־הַיַּ֔עַר וַתְּבַקַּ֣עְנָה מֵהֶ֔ם אַרְבָּעִ֥ים וּשְׁנֵ֖י יְלָדִֽים׃

And he looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tore forty and two children of them.

The tree

Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation	gloss
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 יִּ֤פֶן	cc	and
2	יִּ֤פֶן	פָּנָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he turned
3	אַֽחֲרָי	אַחַר	ADP	_	4 ו֙	case	behind
4	ו֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 יִּ֤פֶן	obl	him
5	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	6 יִּרְא	cc	and
6	יִּרְא	רָאָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יִּ֤פֶן	conj	he
7	ֵ֔ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 יִּרְא	obj	saw them
8	וַֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	9 יְקַלְל	cc	and
9	יְקַלְל	קָלַל	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יִּ֤פֶן	conj	he
10	ֵ֖ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 יְקַלְל	obj	cursed them
11	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	12 שֵׁ֣ם	case	in
12	שֵׁ֣ם	שֵׁם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	9 יְקַלְל	obl	the name
13	יְהוָ֑ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	12 שֵׁ֣ם	compound:smixut	of Yahweh
14	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	15 תֵּצֶ֨אנָה	cc	and
15	תֵּצֶ֨אנָה	יָצָא	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	2 יִּ֤פֶן	conj	they came out
16	שְׁתַּ֤יִם	שְׁנַיִם	NUM	Gender=Fem Number=Dual	17 דֻּבִּים֙	nummod	two
17	דֻּבִּים֙	דֹּב	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	15 תֵּצֶ֨אנָה	nsubj	[female] bears
18	מִן־	מִן	ADP	_	20 יַּ֔עַר	case	from
19	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	20 יַּ֔עַר	det	the
20	יַּ֔עַר	יַעַר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	15 תֵּצֶ֨אנָה	obl	forest
21	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	22 תְּבַקַּ֣עְנָה	cc	and
22	תְּבַקַּ֣עְנָה	בָּקַע	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Plur Person=3	2 יִּ֤פֶן	conj	they tore in pieces
23	מֵ	מִן	ADP	_	24 הֶ֔ם	case	of
24	הֶ֔ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 תְּבַקַּ֣עְנָה	obl	them
25	אַרְבָּעִ֥ים	אַרְבַּע	NUM	Number=Plur	28 יְלָדִֽים	nummod	forty
26	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	27 שְׁנֵ֖י	cc	and
27	שְׁנֵ֖י	שְׁנַיִם	NUM	Gender=Masc Number=Dual	25 אַרְבָּעִ֥ים	conj	two
28	יְלָדִֽים	יֶלֶד	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	22 תְּבַקַּ֣עְנָה	obj	boys
29	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	28 יְלָדִֽים	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
speech: narration
negation: no

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יִּפֶן he turned	wayyiqtol · qal
יִּרְא he	wayyiqtol · qal		ֵם saw them
יְקַלְל he	wayyiqtol · piel		ֵם cursed them
תֵּצֶאנָה they came out	wayyiqtol · qal	דֻּבִּים [female] bears
תְּבַקַּעְנָה they tore in pieces	wayyiqtol · piel	דֻּבִּים [female] bears	יְלָדִֽים boys

MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

Targum Jonathan

וְאִתְפְּנֵי לַאֲחוֹרוֹהִי וַחֲזִינוּן וְלַטִינוּן בִּשְׁמָא דַייָ וּנְפַקוּ תַּרְתֵּין דוּבִין מִן חוּרְשָׁא וּבְזָעָא מִנְהוֹן אַרְבְּעִין וּתְרֵין יַנְקִין:

The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

English, JPS 1917

Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. Tree, glosses and frames: MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew, CC BY 4.0; converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). Speech act: Mova's rules on the MACULA words (macula prag). Targum: Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

English: JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence wlc:2KI:41.

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