2 Samuel 11:4 · JPS 1917

And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness; and she returned unto her house.

Who acts: David, sheba · What happens: send, take, come in, lie, purify, return · To what, where: messengers, sheba

This is 2 Samuel 11:4 · 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, sheba), 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 sent	cc
2	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 took	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 took	cc
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 took	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	unto	unto	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lay	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lay	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lay	nsubj
19	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lay	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 purified	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 purified	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 purified	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 purified	aux:pass
26	purified	purify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 lay	advcl
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 uncleanness	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 uncleanness	nmod:poss
29	uncleanness	uncleanness	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 purified	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 returned	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 returned	cc
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 returned	nsubj
33	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
34	unto	unto	ADP	_	36 house	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 house	nmod:poss
36	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 returned	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 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	send	past	David	messengers			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme
2	take	past	David not said here		sheba		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
3	come in	past	sheba			unto David	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lie	past	David			with sheba	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	purify	past · passive		sheba		from sheba's uncleanness	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source from uncleanness=Theme
6	return	past	sheba			unto sheba's house	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

וַיִּשְׁלַח֩ דָּוִ֨ד מַלְאָכִ֜ים וַיִּקָּחֶ֗הָ וַתָּב֤וֹא אֵלָיו֙ וַיִּשְׁכַּ֣ב עִמָּ֔הּוְהִ֥יא מִתְקַדֶּ֖שֶׁת מִטֻּמְאָתָ֑הּ וַתָּ֖שָׁב אֶל־בֵּיתָֽהּ׃

2 Samuel 11:4: 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:273 of Mova's parse database.

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