2 Kings 7:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

If we say: We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, we die also.

Who acts: we, famine · What happens: say, enter, be, die, sit · To what, where: city · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Kings 7:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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, famine), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 say	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 city	advcl
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 enter	punct
5	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 enter	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 enter	aux
7	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	ccomp
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 city	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 city	det
10	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 enter	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 city	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 city	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 famine	det
14	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 city	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 city	cop
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 city	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 city	det
18	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 die	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 die	cc
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 die	nsubj
22	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 die	aux
23	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 city	conj
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 die	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 die	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 die	cc
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 sit	mark
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 sit	nsubj
29	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 die	advcl
30	still	still	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sit	xcomp
31	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 sit	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sit	punct
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 die	nsubj
34	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 city	conj
35	also	also	ADV	_	34 die	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 city	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	we				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	enter	future	We	the city			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into city=Initial_Location
3	is	present	the famine	the city	then		tree rules
4	die	shall	we	there			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	sit a condition, not said to happen	present	we	here		still property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	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

אִם־אָמַרְנוּ֩ נָב֨וֹא הָעִ֜יר וְהָרָעָ֤ב בָּעִיר֙ וָמַ֣תְנוּ שָׁ֔ם וְאִם־יָשַׁ֥בְנוּ פֹ֖ה וָמָ֑תְנוּ וְעַתָּ֗ה לְכוּ֙ וְנִפְּלָה֙ אֶל־מַחֲנֵ֣ה אֲרָ֔ם אִם־יְחַיֻּ֣נוּ נִֽחְיֶ֔ה וְאִם־יְמִיתֻ֖נוּ וָמָֽתְנוּ׃

2 Kings 7:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

This verse in JPS 1917:

If we say: We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, we die also.
Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Arameans; if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.'

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2KI:201 of Mova's parse database.

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