2 Samuel 9:2 · JPS 1917

Now there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him unto David; and the king said unto him: 'Art thou Ziba?' And he said: 'Thy servant is he.'

Who acts: servant, name, they, king, Ziba · What happens: be, call, say, name · To what, where: Ziba, servant, David · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 9:2 · 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 (servant, name, they, king), 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	_	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	_	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Saul	case
8	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 house	nmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 servant	det
10	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
11	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	12 name	nmod:poss
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Ziba	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Ziba	cop
14	Ziba	Ziba	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 servant	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 called	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 called	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 called	nsubj
18	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 was	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 called	obj
20	unto	unto	ADP	_	21 David	case
21	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 called	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 king	det
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 was	conj
27	unto	unto	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	obl
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 Art	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 Art	punct
31	Art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 said	ccomp
32	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 Art	nsubj
33	Ziba	Ziba	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Art	xcomp
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 Art	punct
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 Art	punct
36	And	and	CCONJ	_	38 said	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 said	nsubj
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 was	conj
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	44 he	punct
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	44 he	punct
41	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	42 servant	nmod:poss
42	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 he	nsubj
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 he	cop
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 said	ccomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	44 he	punct
46	'	'	PUNCT	_	44 he	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed form=q, act=ask

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a servant			there	now	of the house of Saul	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	Ziba's name	Ziba					tree rules
3	call	past	they		servant			unto David	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	past	the king					unto David	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	king						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	Thy servant	David					tree rules
7	name		Ziba						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

וּלְבֵ֨ית שָׁא֥וּל עֶ֙בֶד֙ וּשְׁמ֣וֹ צִיבָ֔א וַיִּקְרְאוּ־ל֖וֹ אֶל־דָּוִ֑ד וַיֹּ֨אמֶר הַמֶּ֧לֶךְ אֵלָ֛יו הַאַתָּ֥ה צִיבָ֖א וַיֹּ֥אמֶר עַבְדֶּֽךָ׃

2 Samuel 9:2: 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:230 of Mova's parse database.

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