2 Samuel 8:1 שְׁמוּאֵל ב

Who acts: it, David · What happens: come, pass, smite, subdue, take · To what, where: Philistines, Metheg ammah, hand

This is 2 Samuel 8:1 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 — it, David — and what happens in the verse to Philistines, Metheg ammah, hand, 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.

וַֽיְהִי֙ אַֽחֲרֵי־כֵ֔ן וַיַּ֥ךְ דָּוִ֛ד אֶת־פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים וַיַּכְנִיעֵ֑ם וַיִּקַּ֥ח דָּוִ֛ד אֶת־מֶ֥תֶג הָאַמָּ֖ה מִיַּ֥ד פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים׃

And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them; and David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.

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	וַֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 יְהִי֙	cc	and
2	יְהִי֙	הָיָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	it was
3	אַֽחֲרֵי־	אַחַר	ADP	_	4 כֵ֔ן	case	after
4	כֵ֔ן	כֵּן	ADV	_	2 יְהִי֙	obl	thus
5	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	6 יַּ֥ךְ	cc	and
6	יַּ֥ךְ	נָכָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יְהִי֙	conj	he defeated
7	דָּוִ֛ד	דָּוִד	PROPN	_	6 יַּ֥ךְ	nsubj	David
8	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	9 פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים	case	(et)
9	פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים	פְּלִשְׁתִּי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	6 יַּ֥ךְ	obj	[the] Philistines
10	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	11 יַּכְנִיע	cc	and
11	יַּכְנִיע	כָּנַע	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יְהִי֙	conj	he
12	ֵ֑ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 יַּכְנִיע	obj	subdued them
13	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	14 יִּקַּ֥ח	cc	and
14	יִּקַּ֥ח	לָקַח	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יְהִי֙	conj	he took
15	דָּוִ֛ד	דָּוִד	PROPN	_	14 יִּקַּ֥ח	nsubj	David
16	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	17 מֶ֥תֶג	case	(et)
17	מֶ֥תֶג	מֶתֶג	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	14 יִּקַּ֥ח	obj	the bridle
18	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	19 אַמָּ֖ה	det	of
19	אַמָּ֖ה	אַמָּה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	17 מֶ֥תֶג	compound:smixut	the cubit
20	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	21 יַּ֥ד	case	from
21	יַּ֥ד	יָד	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 יִּקַּ֥ח	obl	the hand
22	פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים	פְּלִשְׁתִּי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	21 יַּ֥ד	compound:smixut	of [the] Philistines
23	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	22 פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	who makes it happen (AA)
יַּךְ he defeated	wayyiqtol · hiphil	פְּלִשְׁתִּים [the] Philistines		דָּוִד David
יַּכְנִיע he	wayyiqtol · hiphil	ֵם subdued them		דָּוִד David
יִּקַּח he took	wayyiqtol · qal	דָּוִד David	מֶתֶג the bridle

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 בָּתַר כֵּן וּמְחָא דָוִד יַת פְּלִשְׁתָּאֵי וְתַבְּרִינוּן וּנְסִיב דָוִד יַת תִּקוּן אַמְתָא מִידָא דִפְלִשְׁתָּאֵי:

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 after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them; and David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.

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:187.

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