2 Samuel 9:8 · JPS 1917

And he bowed down, and said: 'What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?'

Who acts: David, thou · What happens: bow down, say, be, look · To what, where: servant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 9:8 · 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, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 bowed	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bowed	nsubj
3	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 bowed	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bowed	conj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 servant	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 servant	punct
10	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 servant	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 servant	cop
12	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 servant	nmod:poss
13	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 look	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 look	mark
16	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 look	nsubj
17	shouldest	should	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	18 look	aux
18	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 servant	advcl
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 dog	case
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	23 dog	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 dog	det
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dog	amod
23	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 look	obl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 am	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 am	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 dog	acl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 servant	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 bowed	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bow down	past	David			vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	David not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		thy servant		tree rules
4	look	should	thou		upon such dead dog	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon dog=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

וַיִּשְׁתַּ֕חוּ וַיֹּ֖אמֶר מֶ֣ה עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ כִּ֣י פָנִ֔יתָ אֶל־הַכֶּ֥לֶב הַמֵּ֖ת אֲשֶׁ֥ר כָּמֽוֹנִי׃

2 Samuel 9:8: 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:237 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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