2 Kings 6:28 · JPS 1917

And the king said unto her: 'What aileth thee?' And she answered: 'This woman said unto me: Give thy son, that we may eat him to-day, and we will eat my son to-morrow.

Who acts: king, thee, Israel, woman, we · What happens: say, ail, answer, give, eat · To what, where: son, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Kings 6:28 · 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, thee, Israel, woman), 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	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	unto	unto	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 aileth	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 aileth	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 aileth	obj
10	aileth	ail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
11	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 aileth	nsubj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 aileth	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 aileth	punct
14	And	and	CCONJ	_	16 answered	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 answered	nsubj
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
19	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 woman	det
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 answered	ccomp
22	unto	unto	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 said	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 Give	punct
25	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
26	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 son	nmod:poss
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Give	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 eat	punct
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 eat	mark
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 eat	nsubj
31	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 eat	aux
32	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 Give	advcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 eat	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 day	case
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 to	punct
36	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 eat	obl:unmarked
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 eat	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 eat	cc
39	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 eat	nsubj
40	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 eat	aux
41	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 eat	conj
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 son	nmod:poss
43	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 eat	obj
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 morrow	case
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 to	punct
46	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 eat	obl:unmarked
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=ask

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king			unto Israel	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ail	present	thee				vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient what=Experiencer
3	answer speech: assert	past	Israel				tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	this woman			unto me	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	give	infinitive		thy son			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme
6	eat	may	we	king	day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
7	eat	future	we	my son		to morrow	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient

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

וַיֹּֽאמֶר־לָ֥הּ הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ מַה־לָּ֑ךְ וַתֹּ֗אמֶר הָאִשָּׁ֨ה הַזֹּ֜את אָמְרָ֣ה אֵלַ֗י תְּנִ֤י אֶת־בְּנֵךְ֙ וְנֹאכְלֶ֣נּוּ הַיּ֔וֹם וְאֶת־בְּנִ֖י נֹאכַ֥ל מָחָֽר׃

2 Kings 6:28: 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:192 of Mova's parse database.

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