2 Samuel 7:8 · JPS 1917

Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto My servant David: Thus saith the LORD of hosts: I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be prince over My people, over Israel.

Who acts: thou, LORD, I · What happens: say, take, follow, be · To what, where: thee, sheepcote, sheep, prince, Israel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 7:8 · 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 (thou, LORD, 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	Now	now	ADV	_	6 say	advmod
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	6 say	advmod
3	thus	thus	ADV	_	6 say	advmod
4	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	unto	unto	ADP	_	9 servant	case
8	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 servant	nmod:poss
9	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obl
10	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 servant	appos
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 saith	punct
12	Thus	thus	ADV	_	13 saith	advmod
13	saith	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 LORD	det
15	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 saith	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 hosts	case
17	hosts	host	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 LORD	nmod
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 took	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 took	nsubj
20	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saith	ccomp
21	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 took	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 sheepcote	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sheepcote	det
24	sheepcote	sheepcote	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 took	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 following	punct
26	from	from	SCONJ	_	27 following	mark
27	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 took	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sheep	det
29	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 following	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 prince	punct
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 prince	mark
32	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	35 prince	nsubj
33	shouldest	should	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	35 prince	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 prince	cop
35	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 took	advcl
36	over	over	ADP	_	38 people	case
37	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 people	nmod:poss
38	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 prince	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Israel	punct
40	over	over	ADP	_	41 Israel	case
41	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 prince	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	shall	thou			now	unto My servant; therefore, thus property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	the LORD of hosts				thus property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	past	I	thee	the sheepcote			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent thou=Theme from sheepcote=Initial_Location
4	follow	gerund	I not said here	the sheep				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme
5	is a	should	thou	prince	Israel		over My people	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

וְ֠עַתָּה כֹּֽה־תֹאמַ֞ר לְעַבְדִּ֣י לְדָוִ֗ד כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת אֲנִ֤י לְקַחְתִּ֙יךָ֙ מִן־הַנָּוֶ֔ה מֵאַחַ֖ר הַצֹּ֑אן לִֽהְי֣וֹת נָגִ֔יד עַל־עַמִּ֖י עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

2 Samuel 7:8: 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:185 of Mova's parse database.

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