2 Samuel 4:7 · JPS 1917

Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bed-chamber, they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.

Who acts: Baanah, Rechab · What happens: come, lie, smite, slay, behead, take · To what, where: house, bed, Rechab, head

This is 2 Samuel 4:7 · 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 (Baanah, Rechab), 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	22 smote	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 smote	advcl
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 lay	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lay	nsubj
11	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 smote	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 bed	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 bed	nmod:poss
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 chamber	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 chamber	nmod:poss
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 chamber	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 bed	punct
19	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lay	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 smote	nsubj
22	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 smote	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 slew	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 slew	cc
26	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 smote	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 slew	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 beheaded	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 beheaded	cc
30	beheaded	behead	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 smote	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 beheaded	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 took	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 took	cc
34	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 smote	conj
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 head	nmod:poss
36	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 took	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 went	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 went	cc
39	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 smote	conj
40	by	by	ADP	_	42 way	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 way	det
42	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 went	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 Arabah	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Arabah	det
45	Arabah	Arabah	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 way	nmod
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	47 night	det
47	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 went	obl:unmarked
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 smote	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Baanah		the house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location
2	lie	past	Rechab		Rechab's bed		in Rechab's bed chamber	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location
3	smite	past	Baanah	Rechab		now		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
4	slay	past	Baanah not said here	Rechab				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	behead	past	Baanah not said here	Rechab				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	take	past	Baanah not said here	Rechab's head				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
7	go	past	Baanah not said here			night	by the way of the Arabah	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by way=Location

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

וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ הַבַּ֗יִת וְהֽוּא־שֹׁכֵ֤ב עַל־מִטָּתוֹ֙ בַּחֲדַ֣ר מִשְׁכָּב֔וֹ וַיַּכֻּ֙הוּ֙ וַיְמִתֻ֔הוּ וַיָּסִ֖ירוּ אֶת־רֹאשׁ֑וֹ וַיִּקְחוּ֙ אֶת־רֹאשׁ֔וֹ וַיֵּֽלְכ֛וּ דֶּ֥רֶךְ הָעֲרָבָ֖ה כָּל־הַלָּֽיְלָה׃

2 Samuel 4:7: 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:120 of Mova's parse database.

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