2 Kings 4:38 · JPS 1917

And Elisha came again to Gilgal; and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said unto his servant: 'Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.'

Who acts: Elisha, dearth, sons · What happens: come, be, sit, say, set on, seethe · To what, where: Gilgal, great pot, pottage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Kings 4:38 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elisha, dearth, sons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 came	cc
2	Elisha	Elisha	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	again	again	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Gilgal	case
6	Gilgal	Gilgal	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 was	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 was	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
11	a	a	DET	_	12 dearth	det
12	dearth	dearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 land	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 land	det
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dearth	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sitting	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sitting	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sons	det
19	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sitting	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 prophets	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 prophets	det
22	prophets	prophet	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sons	nmod
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sitting	aux
24	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 came	conj
25	before	before	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sitting	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
31	unto	unto	ADP	_	33 servant	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 servant	nmod:poss
33	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 said	obl
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 Set	punct
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	36 Set	punct
36	Set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 said	ccomp
37	on	on	ADP	_	36 Set	compound:prt
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 pot	det
39	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 pot	amod
40	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 Set	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 seethe	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 seethe	cc
43	seethe	seethe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	36 Set	conj
44	pottage	pottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 seethe	obj
45	for	for	ADP	_	47 sons	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 sons	det
47	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 seethe	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 prophets	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 prophets	det
50	prophets	prophet	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 sons	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
52	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed voice=narrator, form=decl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Elisha		Gilgal	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gilgal=Initial_Location
2	be	past	a dearth in the land		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit	past · progressive	the sons of the prophets			before dearth		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
4	say speech: assert	past	dearth				unto dearth's servant	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	set on	infinitive		the great pot				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient pot=Result
6	seethe	infinitive		pottage			for the sons of the prophets	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location pottage=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The Hebrew of this verse

וֶאֱלִישָׁ֞ע שָׁ֤ב הַגִּלְגָּ֙לָה֙ וְהָרָעָ֣ב בָּאָ֔רֶץ וּבְנֵי֙ הַנְּבִיאִ֔ים יֹשְׁבִ֖ים לְפָנָ֑יו וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לְנַעֲר֗וֹ שְׁפֹת֙ הַסִּ֣יר הַגְּדוֹלָ֔ה וּבַשֵּׁ֥ל נָזִ֖יד לִבְנֵ֥י הַנְּבִיאִֽים׃

2 Kings 4:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2KI:121 of Mova's parse database.

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