2 Samuel 7:18 · JPS 1917
Then David the king went in, and sat before the LORD; and he said: 'Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that Thou hast brought me thus far?
Who acts: David, I, Thou · What happens: go in, sit, say, be, bring · To what, where: house, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 2 Samuel 7:18 · 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, I, Thou), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 David | appos |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sat | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sat | cc |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 LORD | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 LORD | det |
| 12 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 Who | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 Who | punct |
| 19 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 said | ccomp |
| 20 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Who | cop |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 Who | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 GOD | punct |
| 23 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 25 GOD | discourse |
| 24 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 GOD | compound |
| 25 | GOD | GOD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Who | vocative |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 house | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 house | cc |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 house | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 house | cop |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 house | nmod:poss |
| 31 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Who | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 brought | punct |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 brought | mark |
| 34 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 brought | nsubj |
| 35 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 brought | aux |
| 36 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 house | acl:relcl |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 brought | obj |
| 38 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 39 far | advmod |
| 39 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 brought | advmod |
| 40 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=ask
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | David | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | David not said here | before the LORD | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before lord=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | David | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | I | Lord GOD vocative | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | my house | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | bring | present · perfect | Thou | my house not said here | me | far property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
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
וַיָּבֹא֙ הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ דָּוִ֔ד וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַיֹּ֗אמֶר מִ֣י אָנֹכִ֞י אֲדֹנָ֤י יְהוִה֙ וּמִ֣י בֵיתִ֔י כִּ֥י הֲבִיאֹתַ֖נִי עַד־הֲלֹֽם׃
2 Samuel 7:18: 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:196 of Mova's parse database.
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