2 Kings 21:9 · JPS 1917
But they hearkened not; and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations, whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
Who acts: feet, Manasseh, LORD · What happens: not hearken, seduce, do, be, destroy · To what, where: feet, that, nations
This is 2 Kings 21:9 · 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 (feet, Manasseh, LORD), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 hearkened | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hearkened | nsubj |
| 3 | hearkened | hearken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 hearkened | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 seduced | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 seduced | cc |
| 7 | Manasseh | Manasseh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 seduced | nsubj |
| 8 | seduced | seduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hearkened | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seduced | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seduced | xcomp |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 do | obj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 evil | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 evil | cop |
| 15 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 that | acl:relcl |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 do | advmod |
| 17 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 did | mark |
| 18 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 more | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 nations | det |
| 20 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 did | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 destroyed | punct |
| 22 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 destroyed | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 LORD | det |
| 24 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 destroyed | nsubj |
| 25 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 nations | acl:relcl |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 28 children | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 children | det |
| 28 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 destroyed | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Israel | case |
| 30 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 children | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hearkened | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hearken | past | feet = foot | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | seduce | past | Manasseh | feet = foot | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | Manasseh not said here | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | present | evil property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | do | past | Manasseh not said here | the nations | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nation=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | destroy | past | the LORD | the nations | before the children of Israel | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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
וְלֹ֖א שָׁמֵ֑עוּ וַיַּתְעֵ֤ם מְנַשֶּׁה֙ לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת אֶת־הָרָ֔ע מִן־הַ֨גּוֹיִ֔ם אֲשֶׁר֙ הִשְׁמִ֣יד יְהוָ֔ה מִפְּנֵ֖י בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
2 Kings 21:9: 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:660 of Mova's parse database.
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