2 Kings 8:13 · JPS 1917
And Hazael said: 'But what is thy servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?' And Elisha answered: 'The LORD hath shown me that thou shalt be king over Aram.'
Who acts: Hazael, servant, Elisha, LORD, thou · What happens: say, be, do, answer, show · To what, where: servant, dog, great thing, me, king, Aram · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 2 Kings 8:13 · 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 (Hazael, servant, Elisha, LORD), 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 | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | Hazael | Hazael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 servant | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 servant | punct |
| 6 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 servant | cc |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 servant | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 servant | cop |
| 9 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 servant | nmod:poss |
| 10 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dog | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 dog | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 dog | cop |
| 14 | but | but | ADV | _ | 16 dog | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dog | det |
| 16 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 servant | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 dog | advcl |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 thing | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 thing | amod |
| 24 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 do | obj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 servant | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 servant | punct |
| 27 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 answered | cc |
| 28 | Elisha | Elisha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 answered | nsubj |
| 29 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 shown | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 shown | punct |
| 32 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 LORD | det |
| 33 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 shown | nsubj |
| 34 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 shown | aux |
| 35 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 answered | ccomp |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 shown | iobj |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 king | mark |
| 38 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 41 king | nsubj |
| 39 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 41 king | aux |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 king | cop |
| 41 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 shown | ccomp |
| 42 | over | over | ADP | _ | 43 Aram | case |
| 43 | Aram | Aram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 king | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 45 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=ask, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hazael | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | thy servant | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | thy servant | a dog | but property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | do | should | Hazael | this great thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | past | Elisha | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | show | present · perfect | the LORD | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | is a | shall | thou | king | Aram | tree rules |
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
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר חֲזָהאֵ֔ל כִּ֣י מָ֤ה עַבְדְּךָ֙ הַכֶּ֔לֶב כִּ֣י יַעֲשֶׂ֔ה הַדָּבָ֥ר הַגָּד֖וֹל הַזֶּ֑ה וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלִישָׁ֔ע הִרְאַ֧נִי יְהוָ֛ה אֹתְךָ֖ מֶ֥לֶךְ עַל־אֲרָֽם׃
2 Kings 8:13: 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:236 of Mova's parse database.
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