2 Samuel 4:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3
Now Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet.
Who acts: Jonathan, son · What happens: have, be · To what, where: son
This is 2 Samuel 4:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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 (Jonathan, son), 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 | 8 had | advmod |
| 2 | Jonathan | Jonathan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 4 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Saul | case |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Jonathan | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jonathan | punct |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 son | det |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lame | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lame | cop |
| 13 | lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 son | acl:relcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 feet | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 feet | nmod:poss |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lame | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Jonathan | a son | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | a son | of son's feet; lame property | 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
וְלִיהֽוֹנָתָן֙ בֶּן־שָׁא֔וּל בֵּ֖ן נְכֵ֣ה רַגְלָ֑יִם בֶּן־חָמֵ֣שׁ שָׁנִ֣ים הָיָ֡ה בְּבֹ֣א שְׁמֻעַת֩ שָׁא֨וּל וִיהֽוֹנָתָ֜ן מִֽיִּזְרְעֶ֗אל וַתִּשָּׂאֵ֤הוּ אֹֽמַנְתּוֹ֙ וַתָּנֹ֔ס וַיְהִ֞י בְּחָפְזָ֥הּ לָנ֛וּס וַיִּפֹּ֥ל וַיִּפָּסֵ֖חַ וּשְׁמ֥וֹ מְפִיבֹֽשֶׁת׃
2 Samuel 4:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Now Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet.
- He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled; and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame.
- And his name was Mephibosheth.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2SA:115 of Mova's parse database.
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