2 Kings 2:17 · JPS 1917

And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said: 'Send.' They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.

Who acts: sons, Elijah · What happens: urge, be, say, send, seek, not find · To what, where: Elijah, fifty men · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Kings 2:17 · 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 (sons, Elijah), 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	_	12 said	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 urged	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 urged	nsubj
4	urged	urge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 urged	obj
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 ashamed	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ashamed	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ashamed	cop
9	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 urged	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 Send	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 Send	punct
15	Send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 Send	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 Send	punct
18	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sent	nsubj
19	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	parataxis
20	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	19 sent	advmod
21	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 men	nummod
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sent	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 sought	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sought	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sought	nsubj
26	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sent	conj
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 days	nummod
28	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sought	obl:unmarked
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 found	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 found	cc
31	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sought	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 found	obj
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 found	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	urge	past	sons = son		Elijah			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is	past	Elijah				ashamed property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Elijah					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	send	infinitive						vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	send	past	sons = son	fifty men			therefore property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
6	seek	past	sons = son			day		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not find	past	sons = son not said here	Elijah				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

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

וַיִּפְצְרוּ־ב֥וֹ עַד־בֹּ֖שׁ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר שְׁלָ֑חוּ וַֽיִּשְׁלְחוּ֙ חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים אִ֔ישׁ וַיְבַקְשׁ֥וּ שְׁלֹשָֽׁה־יָמִ֖ים וְלֹ֥א מְצָאֻֽהוּ׃

2 Kings 2:17: 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:39 of Mova's parse database.

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