2 Samuel 11:8 · JPS 1917
And David said to Uriah: 'Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet.' And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of food from the king.
Who acts: David, Uriah, mess · What happens: say, go down, wash, depart, follow, mess · To what, where: Uriah, feet, house, David, food · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 2 Samuel 11:8 · 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, Uriah, mess), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Uriah | case |
| 5 | Uriah | Uriah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Go | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Go | punct |
| 8 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 Go | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 house | nmod:poss |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Go | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wash | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wash | cc |
| 15 | wash | wash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 Go | conj |
| 16 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 feet | nmod:poss |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wash | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 departed | cc |
| 21 | Uriah | Uriah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 departed | nsubj |
| 22 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 house | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 king | case |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 departed | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 followed | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 followed | cc |
| 31 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 32 followed | expl |
| 32 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 departed | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 followed | obj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 mess | det |
| 35 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 followed | nsubj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 food | case |
| 37 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 mess | nmod |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 king | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 king | det |
| 40 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 followed | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | David | Uriah | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to uriah=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go down | infinitive | to thy house; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | wash | infinitive | thy feet | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | |||||
| 4 | depart | past | Uriah | the king's house | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | follow | past | a mess of food | David | there | from the king | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from king=Trajectory | ||
| 6 | mess | food | nom mess «state transitive»: of=patient |
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
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר דָּוִד֙ לְא֣וּרִיָּ֔הרֵ֥ד לְבֵיתְךָ֖ וּרְחַ֣ץ רַגְלֶ֑יךָ וַיֵּצֵ֤א אֽוּרִיָּה֙ מִבֵּ֣ית הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וַתֵּצֵ֥א אַחֲרָ֖יו מַשְׂאַ֥ת הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃
2 Samuel 11:8: 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:277 of Mova's parse database.
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