2 Kings 6:21 · JPS 1917

And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them: 'My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?'

Who acts: king, Elisha, I · What happens: say, see, smite · To what, where: chariots · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Kings 6:21 · 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 (king, Elisha, I), 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	_	6 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Israel	case
5	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 king	nmod
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	unto	unto	ADP	_	8 Elisha	case
8	Elisha	Elisha	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 smite	punct
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 saw	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	obj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 smite	punct
16	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 smite	vocative
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 father	punct
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 smite	aux
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 smite	nsubj
21	smite	smite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 smite	obj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 smite	punct
24	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 smite	aux
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 smite	nsubj
26	smite	smite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 smite	parataxis
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 smite	obj
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 smite	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 smite	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=q, indirect=0

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king of Israel		unto Elisha	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	past	Elisha	chariots = chariot		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	smite	shall	I	chariots = chariot	My father vocative	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
4	smite	shall	I	chariots = chariot		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

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

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר מֶֽלֶךְ־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ אֶל־אֱלִישָׁ֔ע כִּרְאֹת֖וֹ אוֹתָ֑ם הַאַכֶּ֥ה אַכֶּ֖ה אָבִֽי׃

2 Kings 6:21: 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:184 of Mova's parse database.

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