2 Kings 9:17 · JPS 1917

Now the watchman stood on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said: 'I see a company.' And Joram said: 'Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say: Is it peace?'

Who acts: watchman, I, Joram, horseman · What happens: stand, spy, come, say, see, take · To what, where: tower, company, horseman, loins, Joram, peace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Kings 9:17 · 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 (watchman, I, Joram, horseman), 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	_	4 stood	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 watchman	det
3	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 tower	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tower	det
7	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Jezreel	case
9	Jezreel	Jezreel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spied	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 spied	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 spied	nsubj
13	spied	spy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 company	det
15	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spied	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Jehu	case
17	Jehu	Jehu	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 company	nmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 came	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 spied	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 spied	conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
27	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 said	ccomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 company	det
29	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 see	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
32	And	and	CCONJ	_	34 said	cc
33	Joram	Joram	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 said	nsubj
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 Take	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 Take	punct
37	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 said	ccomp
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 horseman	det
39	horseman	horseman	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Take	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 send	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 send	cc
42	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 Take	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 meet	mark
44	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 send	xcomp
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 meet	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 let	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 let	cc
48	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 Take	conj
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 let	obj
50	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 let	xcomp
51	:	:	PUNCT	_	54 peace	punct
52	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 peace	cop
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 peace	nsubj
54	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 say	ccomp
55	?	?	PUNCT	_	54 peace	punct
56	'	'	PUNCT	_	54 peace	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the watchman		the tower	now	in Jezreel	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tower=Location
2	spy	past	watchman	the company of Jehu				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer company=Stimulus
3	come	past	watchman					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	watchman not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	see	present	I	a company				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer company=Stimulus
6	say speech: assert	past	Joram					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	take	infinitive		a horseman				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horseman=Theme
8	send	infinitive						tree rules
9	meet	to-infinitive		loins = loin				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
10	let	infinitive		Joram				tree rules
11	say speech: assert	infinitive	Joram not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
12	is a	present	horseman	peace				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

וְהַצֹּפֶה֩ עֹמֵ֨ד עַֽל־הַמִּגְדָּ֜ל בְּיִזְרְעֶ֗אל וַיַּ֞רְא אֶת־שִׁפְעַ֤ת יֵהוּא֙ בְּבֹא֔וֹ וַיֹּ֕אמֶר שִׁפְעַ֖ת אֲנִ֣י רֹאֶ֑ה וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוֹרָ֗ם קַ֥ח רַכָּ֛ב וּֽשְׁלַ֥ח לִקְרָאתָ֖ם וְיֹאמַ֥ר הֲשָׁלֽוֹם׃

2 Kings 9:17: 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:274 of Mova's parse database.

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