2 Samuel 10:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed.

Who acts: servants, David, men · What happens: tell, send, meet, be · To what, where: half, servants · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 10:5 · 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 (servants, David, men), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 told	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sent	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	obj
5	unto	unto	ADP	_	6 David	case
6	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sent	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sent	nsubj
9	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 meet	mark
11	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sent	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 meet	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 ashamed	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 ashamed	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 men	det
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ashamed	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ashamed	cop
18	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	19 ashamed	advmod
19	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sent	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sent	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	servants = servant		half	unto David	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	send	past	David				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	meet	to-infinitive	David not said here	servants = servant			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
4	is	past	the men			ashamed, greatly property	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

וַיַּגִּ֤דוּ לְדָוִד֙ וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח לִקְרָאתָ֔ם כִּֽי־הָי֥וּ הָאֲנָשִׁ֖ים נִכְלָמִ֣ים מְאֹ֑ד וַיֹּ֤אמֶר הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ שְׁב֣וּ בִֽירֵח֔וֹ עַד־יְצַמַּ֥ח זְקַנְכֶ֖ם וְשַׁבְתֶּֽם׃

2 Samuel 10:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

This verse in JPS 1917:

When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed.
And the king said: 'Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.'

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2SA:249 of Mova's parse database.

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