2 Samuel 9:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Now Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica.
Who acts: Mephibosheth, name, Mica · What happens: have, be, name · To what, where: young son, Mica
This is 2 Samuel 9:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (Mephibosheth, name, Mica), 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 | PronType=Dem | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | Mephibosheth | Mephibosheth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 son | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 son | amod |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Mica | punct |
| 8 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 9 name | nmod:poss |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Mica | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Mica | cop |
| 11 | Mica | Mica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 son | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Mephibosheth | a young son | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Mica's name | Mica | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name | Mica | 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
וְלִמְפִיבֹ֥שֶׁת בֵּן־קָטָ֖ן וּשְׁמ֣וֹ מִיכָ֑א וְכֹל֙ מוֹשַׁ֣ב בֵּית־צִיבָ֔א עֲבָדִ֖ים לִמְפִיבֹֽשֶׁת׃
2 Samuel 9:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Now Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica.
- And all that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto Mephibosheth.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2SA:241 of Mova's parse database.
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