2 Kings 17:25 · JPS 1917
And so it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD; therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
Who acts: men, LORD, lions · What happens: not fear, send, kill, begin · To what, where: LORD, beginning, lions, some, dwelling
This is 2 Kings 17:25 · 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 (men, LORD, lions), 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 | _ | 4 was | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 was | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 was | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 beginning | punct |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 beginning | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beginning | det |
| 8 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feared | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 dwelling | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dwelling | dwell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beginning | nmod |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 dwelling | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 feared | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 feared | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 feared | nsubj |
| 16 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 was | csubj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 feared | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 LORD | det |
| 19 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 feared | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 sent | punct |
| 21 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 24 sent | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 LORD | det |
| 23 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sent | nsubj |
| 24 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 was | parataxis |
| 25 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sent | obj |
| 26 | among | among | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sent | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 killed | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 killed | nsubj |
| 30 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 lions | acl:relcl |
| 31 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 killed | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 them | case |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 some | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fear | past | men = man | the LORD | at the beginning of men's dwelling | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lord=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | send | past | the LORD | lions | among men = man; therefore property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme | |||
| 3 | kill | past | lions | some | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | ||||
| 4 | begin | men's dwelling | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |
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
וַיְהִ֗י בִּתְחִלַּת֙ שִׁבְתָּ֣ם שָׁ֔ם לֹ֥א יָרְא֖וּ אֶת־יְהוָ֑ה וַיְשַׁלַּ֨ח יְהוָ֤ה בָּהֶם֙ אֶת־הָ֣אֲרָי֔וֹת וַיִּֽהְי֥וּ הֹרְגִ֖ים בָּהֶֽם׃
2 Kings 17:25: 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:533 of Mova's parse database.
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