2 Kings 4:1 · JPS 1917

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying: 'Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD; and the creditor is come to take unto him my two children to be bondmen.'

Who acts: certain woman, servant, thou, creditor · What happens: cry, say, be, know, fear, come · To what, where: LORD, two children, bondmen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Kings 4:1 · 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 (certain woman, servant, thou, creditor), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 cried	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 cried	expl
3	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cried	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 wives	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wives	det
9	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 woman	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 sons	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sons	det
12	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wives	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 prophets	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 prophets	det
15	prophets	prophet	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sons	nmod
16	unto	unto	ADP	_	17 Elisha	case
17	Elisha	Elisha	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cried	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saying	punct
19	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 cried	advcl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 dead	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 dead	punct
22	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 servant	nmod:poss
23	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dead	nsubj
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 husband	nmod:poss
25	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 servant	appos
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 dead	cop
27	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cried	ccomp
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 knowest	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 knowest	cc
30	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 knowest	nsubj
31	knowest	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cried	conj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 fear	mark
33	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	34 servant	nmod:poss
34	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fear	nsubj
35	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 fear	aux
36	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 knowest	ccomp
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 LORD	det
38	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 fear	obj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 come	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 come	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 creditor	det
42	creditor	creditor	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 come	nsubj
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 come	aux
44	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 cried	conj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 take	mark
46	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 come	xcomp
47	unto	unto	ADP	_	48 him	case
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 take	obl
49	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 children	nmod:poss
50	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 children	nummod
51	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 take	obj
52	to	to	PART	_	54 bondmen	mark
53	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 bondmen	cop
54	bondmen	bondman	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 children	xcomp
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cried	punct
56	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 cried	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets			there	now	unto Elisha	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	gerund	a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	Thy servant					dead property	tree rules
4	know	present	thou						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	fear	past · do-support	thy servant	the LORD					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lord=Stimulus
6	come	present · passive	the creditor						tree rules
7	take	to-infinitive	the creditor not said here		my two children			unto creditor	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination
8	is a	to-infinitive	the creditor not said here	bondmen					tree rules

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

וְאִשָּׁ֣ה אַחַ֣ת מִנְּשֵׁ֣י בְנֵֽי־הַ֠נְּבִיאִים צָעֲקָ֨ה אֶל־אֱלִישָׁ֜ע לֵאמֹ֗ר עַבְדְּךָ֤ אִישִׁי֙ מֵ֔ת וְאַתָּ֣ה יָדַ֔עְתָּ כִּ֣י עַבְדְּךָ֔ הָיָ֥ה יָרֵ֖א אֶת־יְהוָ֑ה וְהַ֨נֹּשֶׁ֔ה בָּ֗א לָקַ֜חַת אֶת־שְׁנֵ֧י יְלָדַ֛י ל֖וֹ לַעֲבָדִֽים׃

2 Kings 4:1: 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:78 of Mova's parse database.

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