2 Samuel 3:30 · JPS 1917
So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
Who acts: Joab · What happens: slay, kill · To what, where: Abner, brother, Gibeon
This is 2 Samuel 3:30 · 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 (Joab), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 slew | advmod |
| 2 | Joab | Joab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 slew | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Abishai | cc |
| 4 | Abishai | Abishai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Joab | conj |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Abishai | appos |
| 7 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Abner | Abner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 slew | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 killed | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 killed | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 killed | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 killed | aux |
| 13 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 slew | advcl |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 killed | obj |
| 16 | Asahel | Asahel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 brother | appos |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 Gibeon | case |
| 18 | Gibeon | Gibeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 killed | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 battle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 battle | det |
| 21 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 killed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 slew | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | past | Joab and Abishai | Abner | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abner=Patient | ||||
| 2 | kill | past · perfect | Joab | sons's brother | Gibeon | in the battle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme |
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
וְיוֹאָב֙ וַאֲבִישַׁ֣י אָחִ֔יו הָרְג֖וּ לְאַבְנֵ֑ר עַל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר הֵמִ֜ית אֶת־עֲשָׂהאֵ֧ל אֲחִיהֶ֛ם בְּגִבְע֖וֹן בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה׃פ
2 Samuel 3:30: 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:2SA:101 of Mova's parse database.
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