2 Samuel 3:17 שְׁמוּאֵל ב

Who acts: Abner, ye, David · What happens: have, say, seek, be · To what, where: communication, king · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is 2 Samuel 3:17 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 — Abner, ye, David — and what happens in the verse to communication, king, 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.

וּדְבַר־אַבְנֵ֣ר הָיָ֔ה עִם־זִקְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר גַּם־תְּמוֹל֙ גַּם־שִׁלְשֹׁ֔ם הֱיִיתֶ֞ם מְבַקְשִׁ֧ים אֶת־דָּוִ֛ד לְמֶ֖לֶךְ עֲלֵיכֶֽם׃

And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying: 'In times past ye sought for David to be king over you;

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	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	9 אמֹ֑ר	cc	and
2	דְבַר־	דָּבָר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	9 אמֹ֑ר	nsubj	the word
3	אַבְנֵ֣ר	אַבְנֵר	PROPN	_	2 דְבַר־	compound:smixut	of Abner
4	הָיָ֔ה	הָיָה	AUX	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	9 אמֹ֑ר	cop	it was
5	עִם־	עִם	ADP	_	6 זִקְנֵ֥י	case	with
6	זִקְנֵ֥י	זָקֵן	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	9 אמֹ֑ר	obl	the elders
7	יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל	יִשְׂרָאֵל	PROPN	_	6 זִקְנֵ֥י	compound:smixut	of Israel
8	לֵ	לְ	ADP	_	9 אמֹ֑ר	case	(cmp)
9	אמֹ֑ר	אָמַר	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	root	root
10	גַּם־	גַּם	ADV	_	11 תְּמוֹל֙	advmod	both
11	תְּמוֹל֙	תְּמוֹל	ADV	_	15 מְבַקְשִׁ֧ים	advmod	yesterday
12	גַּם־	גַּם	ADV	_	13 שִׁלְשֹׁ֔ם	advmod	as well as
13	שִׁלְשֹׁ֔ם	שִׁלְשֹׁום	ADV	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	11 תְּמוֹל֙	advmod	[the] third day
14	הֱיִיתֶ֞ם	הָיָה	AUX	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=2	15 מְבַקְשִׁ֧ים	cop	you were
15	מְבַקְשִׁ֧ים	בָּקַשׁ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Plur	9 אמֹ֑ר	ccomp	seeking
16	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	17 דָּוִ֛ד	case	(et)
17	דָּוִ֛ד	דָּוִד	PROPN	_	15 מְבַקְשִׁ֧ים	obj	David
18	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	19 מֶ֖לֶךְ	case	to
19	מֶ֖לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	15 מְבַקְשִׁ֧ים	obl	king
20	עֲלֵי	עַל	ADP	_	21 כֶֽם	case	over
21	כֶֽם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 מְבַקְשִׁ֧ים	obl	you
22	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	21 כֶֽם	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
speech: a frame; the quote follows
negation: no
the frame alone: decl · assert · none

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
הָיָה it was	qatal · qal	דְבַר־ the word
אמֹר	infinitive construct · qal	אַבְנֵר of Abner
הֱיִיתֶם you were	qatal · qal	זִקְנֵי the elders
מְבַקְשִׁים seeking	participle active · piel	זִקְנֵי the elders	דָּוִד David

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

וּפִתְגָם אַבְנֵר הֲוָה עִם סָבֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל לְמֵימָר אַף תְּמָלֵי אַף מִדְקָמוֹהִי הֲוֵיתוּן בָּעָן יַת דָוִד לְמֶהֱוֵי מַלְכָּא עֲלֵיכוֹן:

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 Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying: 'In times past ye sought for David to be king over you;

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:75.

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