2 Kings 6:25 מְלָכִים ב

Who acts: great famine, bands · What happens: be, besiege, sell · To what, where: famine, head

This is 2 Kings 6:25 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 — great famine, bands — and what happens in the verse to famine, head, 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.

וַיְהִ֨י רָעָ֤ב גָּדוֹל֙ בְּשֹׁ֣מְר֔וֹן וְהִנֵּ֖ה צָרִ֣ים עָלֶ֑יהָ עַ֣ד הֱי֤וֹת רֹאשׁ־חֲמוֹר֙ בִּשְׁמֹנִ֣ים כֶּ֔סֶף וְרֹ֛בַע הַקַּ֥ב דִּבְיוֹנִ֖יםבַּחֲמִשָּׁה־כָֽסֶף׃

And there was a great famine in Samaria; and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

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 יְהִ֨י	cc	and
2	יְהִ֨י	הָיָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	it was
3	רָעָ֤ב	רָעָב	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יְהִ֨י	nsubj	a famine
4	גָּדוֹל֙	גָּדוֹל	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	3 רָעָ֤ב	amod	great
5	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	6 שֹׁ֣מְר֔וֹן	case	in
6	שֹׁ֣מְר֔וֹן	שֹׁמְרוֹן	PROPN	_	2 יְהִ֨י	obl	Samaria
7	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	9 צָרִ֣ים	cc	and
8	הִנֵּ֖ה	הִנֵּה	INTJ	_	9 צָרִ֣ים	discourse	there!
9	צָרִ֣ים	צוּר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur	2 יְהִ֨י	conj	[they were] laying siege
10	עָלֶ֑י	עַל	ADP	_	11 הָ	case	on
11	הָ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 צָרִ֣ים	obl	it
12	עַ֣ד	עַד	ADP	_	18 כֶּ֔סֶף	case	until
13	הֱי֤וֹת	הָיָה	AUX	HebBinyan=QAL	18 כֶּ֔סֶף	cop	was
14	רֹאשׁ־	רֹאשׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	18 כֶּ֔סֶף	nsubj	[the] head
15	חֲמוֹר֙	חֲמוֹר	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 רֹאשׁ־	compound:smixut	of a donkey
16	בִּ	בְּ	ADP	_	18 כֶּ֔סֶף	case	for
17	שְׁמֹנִ֣ים	שְׁמֹנֶה	NUM	Number=Plur	18 כֶּ֔סֶף	nummod	eighty
18	כֶּ֔סֶף	כֶּסֶף	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	9 צָרִ֣ים	obl	silver
19	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	20 רֹ֛בַע	cc	and
20	רֹ֛בַע	רֹבַע	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	18 כֶּ֔סֶף	conj	the fourth part
21	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	22 קַּ֥ב	det	of
22	קַּ֥ב	קַב	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	20 רֹ֛בַע	compound:smixut	the kab
23	דִּבְיוֹנִ֖ים	דִּבְיוֹנִים	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	20 רֹ֛בַע	appos	doves' dung(s)
24	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	26 כָֽסֶף	case	for
25	חֲמִשָּׁה־	חָמֵשׁ	NUM	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	26 כָֽסֶף	nummod	five
26	כָֽסֶף	כֶּסֶף	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	20 רֹ֛בַע	obl	silver
27	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	26 כָֽסֶף	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)
יְהִי it was	wayyiqtol · qal	רָעָב a famine
צָרִים [they were] laying siege	participle active · qal
הֱיוֹת was	infinitive construct · qal	רֹאשׁ־ [the] head

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

וַהֲוָה כַפְנָא רַבָּא בְּשֹׁמְרוֹן וְהָא צָיְרִין עֲלָהּ עַד דַהֲוָה רֵישָׁא דַחֲמְרָא מִזְדַבֵּן בְּתַמְנָן כְּסַף וְרִבְעַת קַבָּא דְזֶבֶל מַפְקַת יוֹנַיָא בְּחַמְשָׁא סִלְעִין דִכְסַף:

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.

And there was a great famine in Samaria; and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

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:165.

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