2 Kings 14:9 · JPS 1917

And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying: 'The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying: Give thy daughter to my son to wife; and there passed by the wild beasts that were in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle.

Who acts: Jehoash, thistle, cedar, wild beasts · What happens: send, say, be, give, pass, tread down · To what, where: Amaziah king, Lebanon, cedar, daughter, son, thistle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Kings 14:9 · 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 (Jehoash, thistle, cedar, wild beasts), 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	_	7 sent	cc
2	Jehoash	Jehoash	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sent	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Jehoash	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Israel	case
6	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 king	nmod
7	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 king	case
9	Amaziah	Amaziah	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 king	compound
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sent	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Judah	case
12	Judah	Judah	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 king	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saying	punct
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sent	advcl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 saying	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 sent	punct
17	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 thistle	det
18	thistle	thistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sent	nsubj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 Lebanon	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 Lebanon	cop
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 Lebanon	case
22	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 thistle	acl:relcl
23	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 saying	ccomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 cedar	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cedar	det
26	cedar	cedar	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sent	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 Lebanon	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 Lebanon	cop
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 Lebanon	case
30	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 cedar	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 saying	punct
32	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 sent	advcl
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 Give	punct
34	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 saying	ccomp
35	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	36 daughter	nmod:poss
36	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Give	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 son	case
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 son	nmod:poss
39	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Give	obl
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 wife	case
41	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Give	obl
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 passed	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 passed	cc
44	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	45 passed	expl
45	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sent	conj
46	by	by	ADP	_	49 beasts	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 beasts	det
48	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 beasts	amod
49	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 passed	obl
50	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 Lebanon	nsubj
51	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 Lebanon	cop
52	in	in	ADP	_	53 Lebanon	case
53	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 beasts	acl:relcl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 trod	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 trod	cc
56	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 passed	conj
57	down	down	ADP	_	56 trod	compound:prt
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 thistle	det
59	thistle	thistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 trod	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sent	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past	Jehoash		Amaziah king of Judah			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to king=Destination
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Jehoash not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	past	the thistle			Lebanon		tree rules
4	send	past	the thistle			the cedar		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to cedar=Destination
5	is	past	the cedar			Lebanon		tree rules
6	say speech: assert	gerund	the thistle not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	give	infinitive		thy daughter	my son		to wife	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to son=Recipient
8	pass	past	Jehoash not said here			there	by the wild beasts	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by beast=Location
9	is	past	the wild beasts			Lebanon		tree rules
10	tread down	past	Jehoash not said here	the thistle				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location thistle=Theme

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

וַיִּשְׁלַ֞ח יְהוֹאָ֣שׁ מֶֽלֶךְ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אֶל־אֲמַצְיָ֣הוּ מֶֽלֶךְ־יְהוּדָה֮ לֵאמֹר֒ הַח֜וֹחַ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בַּלְּבָנ֗וֹן שָׁ֠לַח אֶל־הָאֶ֜רֶז אֲשֶׁ֤ר בַּלְּבָנוֹן֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר תְּנָֽה־אֶת־בִּתְּךָ֥ לִבְנִ֖י לְאִשָּׁ֑ה וַֽתַּעֲבֹ֞ר חַיַּ֤ת הַשָּׂדֶה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בַּלְּבָנ֔וֹן וַתִּרְמֹ֖ס אֶת־הַחֽוֹחַ׃

2 Kings 14:9: 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:425 of Mova's parse database.

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