2 Samuel 4:11 · JPS 1917

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?'

Who acts: wicked men, I · What happens: slay, not require, take away · To what, where: righteous person, own house, blood, you, earth

This is 2 Samuel 4:11 · 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 (wicked men, I), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADV	_	3 more	advmod
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 require	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 more	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 slain	mark
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 slain	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 slain	aux
9	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 require	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 person	det
11	righteous	righteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 person	amod
12	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slain	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 house	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 house	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 house	amod
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slain	obl
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 bed	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 bed	nmod:poss
19	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slain	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 slain	punct
21	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 require	aux
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 require	nsubj
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 require	advmod
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 require	advmod
25	require	require	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 blood	nmod:poss
27	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 require	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 hand	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hand	nmod:poss
30	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 blood	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 take	cc
33	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 require	conj
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 take	obj
35	away	away	ADV	_	33 take	advmod
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 earth	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 earth	det
38	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 take	obl
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	25 require	punct
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 require	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: ask
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slay	present · perfect	wicked men	a righteous person	LORD's own house		upon LORD's bed	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient
2	not require	shall	I	LORD's blood of your hand		now		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme blood=Precondition
3	take away	infinitive	I not said here	you	the earth		away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent you=Theme from earth=Initial_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

אַ֞ף כִּֽי־אֲנָשִׁ֣ים רְשָׁעִ֗ים הָרְג֧וּ אֶת־אִישׁ־צַדִּ֛יק בְּבֵית֖וֹ עַל־מִשְׁכָּב֑וֹ וְעַתָּ֗ה הֲל֨וֹא אֲבַקֵּ֤שׁ אֶת־דָּמוֹ֙ מִיֶּדְכֶ֔ם וּבִעַרְתִּ֥י אֶתְכֶ֖ם מִן־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

2 Samuel 4:11: 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:124 of Mova's parse database.

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