2 Samuel 1:16 · JPS 1917
And David said unto him: 'Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying: I have slain the LORD'S anointed.'
Who acts: David, blood, mouth, I · What happens: say, be, testify, slay · To what, where: anointed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 2 Samuel 1:16 · 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, blood, mouth, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 head | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 head | punct |
| 8 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 blood | nmod:poss |
| 9 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 head | nsubj |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 head | cop |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 testified | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 testified | mark |
| 16 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 testified | nsubj |
| 18 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 testified | aux |
| 19 | testified | testify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | advcl |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 thee | case |
| 21 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 testified | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 saying | punct |
| 23 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 testified | advcl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 slain | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 slain | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 slain | aux |
| 27 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 saying | ccomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 LORD | det |
| 29 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 anointed | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 'S | 's | PART | _ | 29 LORD | case |
| 31 | anointed | anoint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 slain | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | David | unto man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | Thy blood | upon thy head | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | testify speech: other | present · perfect | thy mouth | against thee | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | thy mouth not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | slay | present · perfect | I | the LORD's anointed | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anoint=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
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלָיו֙ דָּוִ֔ד דָּמְךָ֖ עַל־רֹאשֶׁ֑ךָ כִּ֣י פִ֗יךָ עָנָ֤ה בְךָ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר אָנֹכִ֥י מֹתַ֖תִּי אֶת־מְשִׁ֥יחַ יְהוָֽה׃ס
2 Samuel 1:16: 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:18 of Mova's parse database.
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