2 Samuel 5:17 שְׁמוּאֵל ב

Who acts: Philistines, David · What happens: hear, anoint, go up, seek, go down · To what, where: David, Israel · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is 2 Samuel 5:17 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 — Philistines, David — and what happens in the verse to David, Israel, 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.

וַיִּשְׁמְע֣וּ פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים כִּי־מָשְׁח֨וּ אֶת־דָּוִ֤ד לְמֶ֙לֶךְ֙ עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיַּעֲל֥וּ כָל־פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים לְבַקֵּ֣שׁ אֶת־דָּוִ֑ד וַיִּשְׁמַ֣ע דָּוִ֔ד וַיֵּ֖רֶד אֶל־הַמְּצוּדָֽה׃

And when the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the hold.

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 יִּשְׁמְע֣וּ	cc	and
2	יִּשְׁמְע֣וּ	שָׁמַע	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they heard
3	פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים	פְּלִשְׁתִּי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	2 יִּשְׁמְע֣וּ	nsubj	[the] Philistines
4	כִּי־	כִּי	SCONJ	_	5 מָשְׁח֨וּ	mark	(dm) that
5	מָשְׁח֨וּ	מָשַׁח	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	2 יִּשְׁמְע֣וּ	ccomp	people had anointed
6	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	7 דָּוִ֤ד	case	(et)
7	דָּוִ֤ד	דָּוִד	PROPN	_	5 מָשְׁח֨וּ	obj	David
8	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	9 מֶ֙לֶךְ֙	case	to
9	מֶ֙לֶךְ֙	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	5 מָשְׁח֨וּ	obl	king
10	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	11 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל	case	over
11	יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל	יִשְׂרָאֵל	PROPN	_	5 מָשְׁח֨וּ	obl	Israel
12	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	13 יַּעֲל֥וּ	cc	and
13	יַּעֲל֥וּ	עָלָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	2 יִּשְׁמְע֣וּ	conj	they went up
14	כָל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	13 יַּעֲל֥וּ	nsubj	all
15	פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים	פְּלִשְׁתִּי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	14 כָל־	compound:smixut	[the] Philistines
16	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	17 בַקֵּ֣שׁ	case	to
17	בַקֵּ֣שׁ	בָּקַשׁ	VERB	HebBinyan=PIEL	13 יַּעֲל֥וּ	advcl	seek
18	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	19 דָּוִ֑ד	case	(et)
19	דָּוִ֑ד	דָּוִד	PROPN	_	17 בַקֵּ֣שׁ	obj	David
20	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	21 יִּשְׁמַ֣ע	cc	and
21	יִּשְׁמַ֣ע	שָׁמַע	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יִּשְׁמְע֣וּ	conj	he heard
22	דָּוִ֔ד	דָּוִד	PROPN	_	21 יִּשְׁמַ֣ע	nsubj	David
23	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	24 יֵּ֖רֶד	cc	and
24	יֵּ֖רֶד	יָרַד	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יִּשְׁמְע֣וּ	conj	he went down
25	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	27 מְּצוּדָֽה	case	to
26	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	27 מְּצוּדָֽה	det	the
27	מְּצוּדָֽה	מְצוּדָה	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 יֵּ֖רֶד	obl	stronghold
28	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	27 מְּצוּדָֽה	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יִּשְׁמְעוּ they heard	wayyiqtol · qal	פְלִשְׁתִּים [the] Philistines	מָשְׁחוּ people had anointed
מָשְׁחוּ people had anointed	qatal · qal		דָּוִד David
יַּעֲלוּ they went up	wayyiqtol · qal	פְּלִשְׁתִּים [the] Philistines
בַקֵּשׁ seek	infinitive construct · piel	פְּלִשְׁתִּים [the] Philistines	דָּוִד David
יִּשְׁמַע he heard	wayyiqtol · qal	דָּוִד David
יֵּרֶד he went down	wayyiqtol · qal	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

וּשְׁמָעוּ פְלִשְׁתָּאֵי אֲרֵי מְשָׁחוּ יַת דָוִד לְמֶהֱוֵי מַלְכָּא עַל יִשְׂרָאֵל וּסְלִיקוּ כָּל פְּלִשְׁתָּאֵי לְמִבְעֵי יַת דָוִד וּשְׁמַע דָוִד וּנְחַת לְחַקְרָא:

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 when the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the hold.

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:126.

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