2 Kings 6:29 · JPS 1917

So we boiled my son, and did eat him; and I said unto her on the next day: Give thy son, that we may eat him; and she hath hid her son.'

Who acts: we, I, Israel · What happens: boil, eat, say, give, hide · To what, where: son, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Kings 6:29 · 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 (we, I, Israel), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 boiled	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 boiled	nsubj
3	boiled	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 son	nmod:poss
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boiled	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eat	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 eat	cc
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 eat	aux
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 boiled	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 eat	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 boiled	conj
15	unto	unto	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 day	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 day	det
19	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 day	amod
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl:unmarked
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 Give	punct
22	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
23	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 son	nmod:poss
24	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Give	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 eat	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 eat	mark
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 eat	nsubj
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 eat	aux
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 Give	advcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 eat	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 hid	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 hid	cc
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 hid	nsubj
34	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 hid	aux
35	hid	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 said	ccomp
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 son	nmod:poss
37	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hid	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 hid	punct
39	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 hid	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	boil	past	we	my son			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	eat	past · do-support	we not said here	king			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	I		day	unto Israel	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give	infinitive		thy son			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme
5	eat	may	we	king			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	hide	present · perfect	Israel	Israel's son			vn concealment-16-1 «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

וַנְּבַשֵּׁ֥ל אֶת־בְּנִ֖י וַנֹּֽאכְלֵ֑הוּ וָאֹמַ֨ר אֵלֶ֜יהָ בַּיּ֣וֹם הָאַחֵ֗ר תְּנִ֤י אֶת־בְּנֵךְ֙ וְנֹ֣אכְלֶ֔נּוּ וַתַּחְבִּ֖א אֶת־בְּנָֽהּ׃

2 Kings 6:29: 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:193 of Mova's parse database.

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