2 Samuel 4:9 · JPS 1917
And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them: 'As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
Who acts: David, LORD · What happens: answer, say, live, redeem · To what, where: Rechab, soul, adversity · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 2 Samuel 4:9 · 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 (David, LORD), 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 | _ | 3 answered | cc |
| 2 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Rechab | Rechab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Baanah | cc |
| 6 | Baanah | Baanah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Rechab | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Rechab | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sons | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sons | det |
| 11 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Rechab | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Rimmon | case |
| 13 | Rimmon | Rimmon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sons | nmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Beerothite | det |
| 15 | Beerothite | Beerothite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Rimmon | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 19 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 liveth | punct |
| 23 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 liveth | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 LORD | det |
| 25 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 liveth | nsubj |
| 26 | liveth | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 redeemed | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 redeemed | nsubj |
| 29 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 redeemed | aux |
| 30 | redeemed | redeem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 LORD | advcl:relcl |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 soul | nmod:poss |
| 32 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 redeemed | obj |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 adversity | case |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 adversity | case |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 adversity | det |
| 36 | adversity | adversity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 redeemed | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
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- act
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- changed act=other
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | David | Rechab and Baanah | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rechab=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | David not said here | unto Baanah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | live | present | the LORD | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | redeem | present · perfect | the LORD | my soul | all adversity | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent soul=Theme out adversity=Source |
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
וַיַּ֨עַן דָּוִ֜ד אֶת־רֵכָ֣ב ׀ וְאֶת־בַּעֲנָ֣ה אָחִ֗יו בְּנֵ֛י רִמּ֥וֹן הַבְּאֵֽרֹתִ֖י וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לָהֶ֑ם חַי־יְהוָ֕ה אֲשֶׁר־פָּדָ֥ה אֶת־נַפְשִׁ֖י מִכָּל־צָרָֽה׃
2 Samuel 4:9: 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:122 of Mova's parse database.
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