2 Samuel 10:9 · JPS 1917

Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Arameans;

Who acts: Joab · What happens: see, set, choose, put · To what, where: battle, men, array · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 10:9 · 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 (Joab), 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	4 saw	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 saw	mark
3	Joab	Joab	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 chose	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 set	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 battle	det
7	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 set	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 set	aux:pass
9	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 saw	ccomp
10	against	against	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 set	obl
12	before	before	ADV	_	9 set	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 behind	cc
14	behind	behind	ADV	_	12 before	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 chose	nsubj
17	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 men	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 men	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 men	det
21	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 men	compound
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 chose	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Israel	case
24	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 men	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 put	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 put	cc
27	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 chose	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 put	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 array	case
30	array	array	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obl
31	against	against	ADP	_	33 Arameans	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Arameans	det
33	Arameans	aramean	PROPN	Number=Plur	27 put	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 chose	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Joab			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	set	past · passive		the battle			against Joab; before property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme against he=Destination
3	choose	past	Joab				of all choice men of Israel	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	put	past	Joab not said here	men = man	array		against the Arameans	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in array=Destination

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

וַיַּ֣רְא יוֹאָ֗ב כִּֽי־הָיְתָ֤ה אֵלָיו֙ פְּנֵ֣י הַמִּלְחָמָ֔ה מִפָּנִ֖ים וּמֵֽאָח֑וֹר וַיִּבְחַ֗ר מִכֹּל֙ בְּחוּרֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַֽיַּעֲרֹ֖ךְ לִקְרַ֥את אֲרָֽם׃

2 Samuel 10:9: 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:254 of Mova's parse database.

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