2 Kings 6:25 · JPS 1917
And there was a great famine in Samaria; and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Who acts: great famine, bands · What happens: be, besiege, sell · To what, where: famine, head
This is 2 Kings 6:25 · 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 (great famine, bands), 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 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 famine | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 famine | amod |
| 6 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Samaria | case |
| 8 | Samaria | Samaria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 famine | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 besieged | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 besieged | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 behold | punct |
| 12 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 15 besieged | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 behold | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 besieged | nsubj |
| 15 | besieged | besiege | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 was | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 besieged | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sold | punct |
| 18 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 24 sold | mark |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 ass | det |
| 20 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 ass | case |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sold | aux:pass |
| 24 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 besieged | advcl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 pieces | case |
| 26 | fourscore | fourscore | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 pieces | nummod |
| 27 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sold | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 silver | case |
| 29 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pieces | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 part | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 part | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 part | det |
| 33 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 34 part | amod |
| 34 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sold | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 kab | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 kab | det |
| 37 | kab | kab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 part | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 dung | case |
| 39 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 dung | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 dove | case |
| 41 | dung | dung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 kab | nmod |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 pieces | case |
| 43 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 pieces | nummod |
| 44 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sold | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 silver | case |
| 46 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 pieces | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a great famine in Samaria | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | besiege | past | bands = band | famine | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sell | past · passive | a ass's head | for fourscore pieces of silver; for five pieces of silver; the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme for piece=Asset |
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
וַיְהִ֨י רָעָ֤ב גָּדוֹל֙ בְּשֹׁ֣מְר֔וֹן וְהִנֵּ֖ה צָרִ֣ים עָלֶ֑יהָ עַ֣ד הֱי֤וֹת רֹאשׁ־חֲמוֹר֙ בִּשְׁמֹנִ֣ים כֶּ֔סֶף וְרֹ֛בַע הַקַּ֥ב דִּבְיוֹנִ֖יםבַּחֲמִשָּׁה־כָֽסֶף׃
2 Kings 6:25: 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:189 of Mova's parse database.
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