2 Kings 7:3 · JPS 1917

Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said one to another: 'Why sit we here until we die?

Who acts: four leprous men, windows, we · What happens: be, say, sit, die · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Kings 7:3 · 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 (four leprous men, windows, we), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 were	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 were	expl
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 men	nummod
5	leprous	leprous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 men	amod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 were	nsubj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 entrance	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 entrance	det
9	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 men	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 gate	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gate	det
12	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 entrance	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 were	conj
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 said	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 another	case
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 one	nmod
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 sit	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 sit	punct
22	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	23 sit	advmod
23	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 sit	nsubj
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 sit	advmod
26	until	until	SCONJ	_	28 die	mark
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 die	nsubj
28	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 sit	advcl
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: neg
indirect: yes
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	four leprous men at the entrance of the gate		there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	windows = window	one			to another	tree rules
3	sit	present	we		here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	die	present	we					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

וְאַרְבָּעָ֧ה אֲנָשִׁ֛ים הָי֥וּ מְצֹרָעִ֖ים פֶּ֣תַח הַשָּׁ֑עַר וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ אִ֣ישׁ אֶל־רֵעֵ֔הוּ מָ֗ה אֲנַ֛חְנוּ יֹשְׁבִ֥ים פֹּ֖ה עַד־מָֽתְנוּ׃

2 Kings 7:3: 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:200 of Mova's parse database.

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