2 Samuel 12:22 שְׁמוּאֵל ב

Who acts: David, child, I, LORD · What happens: say, be, fast, weep, know, not be · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is 2 Samuel 12:22 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 — David, child, I, LORD — and what happens in the verse to me, 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 24 chapters of 2 Samuel on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

וַיֹּ֕אמֶר בְּעוֹד֙ הַיֶּ֣לֶד חַ֔י צַ֖מְתִּי וָֽאֶבְכֶּ֑ה כִּ֤י אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙ מִ֣י יוֹדֵ֔עַ וְחַנַּ֥נִי יְהוָ֖ה וְחַ֥י הַיָּֽלֶד׃

And he said: 'While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said: Who knoweth whether the LORD will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?

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 יֹּ֕אמֶר	cc	and
2	יֹּ֕אמֶר	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he said
3	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	7 חַ֔י	case	while
4	עוֹד֙	עוֹד	ADV	_	7 חַ֔י	advmod	still
5	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	6 יֶּ֣לֶד	det	the
6	יֶּ֣לֶד	יֶלֶד	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	7 חַ֔י	nsubj	child
7	חַ֔י	חַי	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	8 צַ֖מְתִּי	obl	[was] alive
8	צַ֖מְתִּי	צוּם	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	2 יֹּ֕אמֶר	ccomp	I fasted
9	וָֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	10 אֶבְכֶּ֑ה	cc	and
10	אֶבְכֶּ֑ה	בָּכָה	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	8 צַ֖מְתִּי	conj	I wept
11	כִּ֤י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	12 אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙	mark	(dm)
12	אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	8 צַ֖מְתִּי	advcl	I said
13	מִ֣י	מִי	PRON	PronType=Int	14 יוֹדֵ֔עַ	nsubj	who?
14	יוֹדֵ֔עַ	יָדַע	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing	12 אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙	ccomp	[is] knowing
15	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	16 חַנּ	cc	and
16	חַנּ	חָנַן	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	14 יוֹדֵ֔עַ	conj	he
17	ַ֥נִי	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 חַנּ	obj	will show favor to me
18	יְהוָ֖ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	16 חַנּ	nsubj	Yahweh
19	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	20 חַ֥י	cc	and
20	חַ֥י	חיה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	16 חַנּ	conj	he will live
21	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	22 יָּֽלֶד	det	the
22	יָּֽלֶד	יֶלֶד	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	20 חַ֥י	nsubj	child
23	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	22 יָּֽלֶד	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
speech: a frame and its quote
negation: no
the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יֹּאמֶר he said	wayyiqtol · qal
צַמְתִּי I fasted	qatal · qal
אֶבְכֶּה I wept	wayyiqtol · qal
אָמַרְתִּי I said	qatal · qal
יוֹדֵעַ [is] knowing	participle active · qal	מִי who?
חַנּ he	weqatal · qal	יְהוָה Yahweh	ַנִי will show favor to me
חַי he will live	weqatal · qal	יָּֽלֶד child

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

וַאֲמַר עַד דְרַבְיָא קַיָם צָמֵית וּבְכֵיתִי אֲרֵי אֲמַרִית מַן יְדַע דִלְמָא יִתְרְחֵים עֲלַי מִן קֳדָם יְיָ וְיֵחִי רַבְיָא:

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 he said: 'While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said: Who knoweth whether the LORD will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?

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:2SA:285.

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