2 Samuel 3:37 · JPS 1917
So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
Who acts: people, it · What happens: understand, not be, slay · To what, where: Abner
This is 2 Samuel 3:37 · 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 (people, it), 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 | _ | 8 understood | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 people | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 understood | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Israel | cc |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 Israel | det |
| 7 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 people | conj |
| 8 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 understood | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 king | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 king | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 king | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 king | advmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 king | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 understood | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 slay | mark |
| 19 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 king | csubj |
| 20 | Abner | Abner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 slay | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 son | det |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Abner | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Ner | case |
| 24 | Ner | Ner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 son | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | all people and all Israel | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | it | of the king | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | slay | to-infinitive | Abner | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abner=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
וַיֵּדְע֧וּ כָל־הָעָ֛ם וְכָל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֑וּא כִּ֣י לֹ֤א הָיְתָה֙ מֵֽהַמֶּ֔לֶךְ לְהָמִ֖ית אֶת־אַבְנֵ֥ר בֶּן־נֵֽר׃פ
2 Samuel 3:37: 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:109 of Mova's parse database.
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