2 Kings 7:9 · JPS 1917

Then they said one to another: 'We do not well; this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace; if we tarry till the morning light, punishment will overtake us; now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household.'

Who acts: tents, day, we, punishment, us, our · What happens: say, be, hold, tarry, overtake, come · To what, where: one, another, day, peace, us, household · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Kings 7:9 · 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 (tents, day, we, punishment), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 said	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 another	case
6	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	3 said	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 well	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 well	punct
9	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 well	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 do	advmod
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 day	punct
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 day	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 day	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 tidings	case
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tidings	amod
21	tidings	tiding	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 day	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hold	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hold	cc
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 hold	nsubj
25	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 day	conj
26	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 peace	nmod:poss
27	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hold	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 overtake	punct
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 tarry	mark
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 tarry	nsubj
31	tarry	tarry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 overtake	advcl
32	till	till	ADP	_	35 light	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 light	det
34	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 light	compound
35	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tarry	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tarry	punct
37	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 overtake	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 overtake	aux
39	overtake	overtake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	parataxis
40	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 overtake	obj
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 come	punct
42	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 come	advmod
43	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	44 come	advmod
44	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	parataxis
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 let	punct
46	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	44 come	conj
47	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 let	obj
48	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 let	xcomp
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 tell	cc
50	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 go	conj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 king	det
52	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 household	nmod:poss
53	's	's	PART	_	52 king	case
54	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 tell	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
56	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: suggest
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	tents = tent	one	another	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Topic to another=Recipient
2	is a	present	this day	a day			of good tidings	tree rules
3	hold	present	we	our peace				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme
4	tarry a condition, not said to happen	present	we			till the morning light		vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5	overtake	future	punishment	us				tree rules
6	come	infinitive				now	therefore property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	let	infinitive		us				tree rules
8	go	infinitive	us not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	tell speech: assert	infinitive	us not said here	the king's household				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent household=Recipient
10	pacify		our					nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent

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

וַיֹּאמְרוּ֩ אִ֨ישׁ אֶל־רֵעֵ֜הוּ לֹֽא־כֵ֣ן ׀ אֲנַ֣חְנוּ עֹשִׂ֗ים הַיּ֤וֹם הַזֶּה֙ יוֹם־בְּשֹׂרָ֣ה ה֔וּא וַאֲנַ֣חְנוּ מַחְשִׁ֗ים וְחִכִּ֛ינוּ עַד־א֥וֹר הַבֹּ֖קֶר וּמְצָאָ֣נוּ עָו֑וֹן וְעַתָּה֙ לְכ֣וּ וְנָבֹ֔אָה וְנַגִּ֖ידָה בֵּ֥ית הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

2 Kings 7:9: 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:207 of Mova's parse database.

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