2 Samuel 9:4 · JPS 1917
And the king said unto him: 'Where is he?' And Ziba said unto the king: 'Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo-debar.'
Who acts: king, Ziba · What happens: say, be · To what, where: house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 2 Samuel 9:4 · 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 (king, Ziba), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Where | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Where | punct |
| 9 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Where | cop |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 Where | nsubj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 Where | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Where | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 15 | Ziba | Ziba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 17 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 19 king | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 house | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 house | punct |
| 22 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 28 house | discourse |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 house | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 house | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 house | cop |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 house | det |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | ccomp |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Machir | case |
| 30 | Machir | Machir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 house | nmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 son | det |
| 32 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Machir | appos |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Ammiel | case |
| 34 | Ammiel | Ammiel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 son | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 debar | punct |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 debar | case |
| 37 | Lo | lo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 debar | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 Lo | punct |
| 39 | debar | debar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 son | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 41 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=ask, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | unto Saul | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | king | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Ziba | unto the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Ziba | the house | of Machir | 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
וַיֹּֽאמֶר־ל֥וֹ הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ אֵיפֹ֣ה ה֑וּא וַיֹּ֤אמֶר צִיבָא֙ אֶל־הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ הִנֵּה־ה֗וּא בֵּ֛ית מָכִ֥יר בֶּן־עַמִּיאֵ֖ל בְּל֥וֹ דְבָֽר ל֥וֹ דְבָֽר׃
2 Samuel 9:4: 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:232 of Mova's parse database.
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