2 Kings 4:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, pass by, turn in, eat · To what, where: oil, bread
This is 2 Kings 4:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (man), 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 | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 turned | mark |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 oft | advmod |
| 8 | oft | oft | ADV | _ | 15 turned | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 passed | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 passed | nsubj |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 oft | advcl |
| 12 | by | by | ADV | _ | 11 passed | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 turned | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 turned | nsubj |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 was | csubj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 turned | compound:prt |
| 17 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 15 turned | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 eat | mark |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 turned | advcl |
| 20 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eat | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | oil | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pass by | past | man | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | turn in | past | man | oft, thither property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | man not said here | bread | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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
וַיְהִ֨י הַיּ֜וֹם וַיַּעֲבֹ֧ר אֱלִישָׁ֣ע אֶל־שׁוּנֵ֗ם וְשָׁם֙ אִשָּׁ֣ה גְדוֹלָ֔ה וַתַּחֲזֶק־בּ֖וֹ לֶאֱכָל־לָ֑חֶם וַֽיְהִי֙ מִדֵּ֣י עָבְר֔וֹ יָסֻ֥ר שָׁ֖מָּה לֶאֱכָל־לָֽחֶם׃
2 Kings 4:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread.
- And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2KI:87 of Mova's parse database.
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