2 Kings 18:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Sayest thou that a mere word of the lips is counsel and strength for the war?
Who acts: thou, mere word · What happens: say, be, word · To what, where: counsel, lips · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 2 Kings 18:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (thou, mere word), 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 | Sayest | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Sayest | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 counsel | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 5 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 word | amod |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 counsel | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 lips | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lips | det |
| 9 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 word | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 counsel | cop |
| 11 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sayest | ccomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 strength | cc |
| 13 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 counsel | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 war | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 war | det |
| 16 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 counsel | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sayest | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=q, indirect=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | thou | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a mere word of the lips | counsel and strength | for the war | tree rules | |||
| 3 | word | the lips | nom word «communication 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
אָמַ֙רְתָּ֙ אַךְ־דְּבַר־שְׂפָתַ֔יִם עֵצָ֥ה וּגְבוּרָ֖ה לַמִּלְחָמָ֑ה עַתָּה֙ עַל־מִ֣י בָטַ֔חְתָּ כִּ֥י מָרַ֖דְתָּ בִּֽי׃
2 Kings 18:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Sayest thou that a mere word of the lips is counsel and strength for the war?
- Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2KI:571 of Mova's parse database.
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