2 Samuel 8:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
And the Moabites became servants to David, and brought presents.
Who acts: Moabites · What happens: become, bring · To what, where: servants, presents
This is 2 Samuel 8:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (Moabites), 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 | _ | 4 became | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Moabites | det |
| 3 | Moabites | moabite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 became | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 David | case |
| 7 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 servants | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 brought | cc |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 became | conj |
| 11 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 brought | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the Moabites | servants to David | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | the Moabites not said here | presents | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent present=Theme |
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
וַיַּ֣ךְ אֶת־מוֹאָ֗ב וַֽיְמַדְּדֵ֤ם בַּחֶ֙בֶל֙ הַשְׁכֵּ֣ב אוֹתָ֣ם אַ֔רְצָה וַיְמַדֵּ֤ד שְׁנֵֽי־חֲבָלִים֙ לְהָמִ֔ית וּמְלֹ֥א הַחֶ֖בֶל לְהַחֲי֑וֹת וַתְּהִ֤י מוֹאָב֙ לְדָוִ֔ד לַעֲבָדִ֖ים נֹשְׂאֵ֥י מִנְחָֽה׃
2 Samuel 8:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And he smote Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive.
- And the Moabites became servants to David, and brought presents.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2SA:210 of Mova's parse database.
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