2 Samuel 9:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
And David said: 'Mephibosheth!' And he answered: 'Behold thy servant!'
Who acts: David · What happens: say, answer, behold · To what, where: servant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 2 Samuel 9:6 · 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 (David), 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 | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mephibosheth | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mephibosheth | punct |
| 6 | Mephibosheth | Mephibosheth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | vocative |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mephibosheth | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mephibosheth | punct |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 answered | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Behold | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Behold | punct |
| 14 | Behold | behold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 answered | ccomp |
| 15 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 servant | nmod:poss |
| 16 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Behold | obj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 Behold | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Behold | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- interjection
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=intj, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | David | Mephibosheth vocative | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | David | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | behold | infinitive | thy servant | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer servant=Stimulus |
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
וַ֠יָּבֹא מְפִיבֹ֨שֶׁת בֶּן־יְהוֹנָתָ֤ן בֶּן־שָׁאוּל֙ אֶל־דָּוִ֔ד וַיִּפֹּ֥ל עַל־פָּנָ֖יו וַיִּשְׁתָּ֑חוּ וַיֹּ֤אמֶר דָּוִד֙ מְפִיבֹ֔שֶׁת וַיֹּ֖אמֶר הִנֵּ֥ה עַבְדֶּֽךָ׃
2 Samuel 9:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came unto David, and fell on his face, and prostrated himself.
- And David said: 'Mephibosheth!' And he answered: 'Behold thy servant!'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2SA:235 of Mova's parse database.
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