2 Samuel 11:16 · JPS 1917

And it came to pass, when Joab kept watch upon the city, that he assigned Uriah unto the place where he knew that valiant men were.

Who acts: letter, Joab, David · What happens: come, pass, keep, assign, know · To what, where: watch, city, Uriah

This is 2 Samuel 11:16 · 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 (letter, Joab, David), 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 came	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 kept	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 kept	mark
8	Joab	Joab	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 kept	nsubj
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	advcl
10	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obj
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 city	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 city	det
13	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 assigned	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 assigned	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 assigned	nsubj
17	assigned	assign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	ccomp
18	Uriah	Uriah	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 assigned	obj
19	unto	unto	ADP	_	21 place	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 place	det
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 assigned	obl
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 knew	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 knew	nsubj
24	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 place	acl:relcl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 were	mark
26	valiant	valiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 men	amod
27	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 were	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 knew	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	letter				tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	letter not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	keep	past	Joab	watch	the city		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme upon city=Location
4	assign	past	David	Uriah		unto the place	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent uriah=Theme
5	know	past	David				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

וַיְהִ֕י בִּשְׁמ֥וֹר יוֹאָ֖ב אֶל־הָעִ֑יר וַיִּתֵּן֙ אֶת־א֣וּרִיָּ֔ה אֶל־הַמָּקוֹם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יָדַ֔ע כִּ֥י אַנְשֵׁי־חַ֖יִל שָֽׁם׃

2 Samuel 11:16: 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:285 of Mova's parse database.

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