2 Samuel 11:21 · JPS 1917

who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast an upper millstone upon him from the wall, that he died at Thebez? why went ye so nigh the wall? then shalt thou say: Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'

Who acts: woman, Abimelech, ye, thou, servant · What happens: smite, not cast, die, go, say, be · To what, where: Abimelech, upper millstone, wall, Thebez · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 11:21 · 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 (woman, Abimelech, ye, thou), 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	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	2 smote	nsubj
2	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Abimelech	Abimelech	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 smote	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 son	det
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Abimelech	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Jerubbesheth	case
7	Jerubbesheth	Jerubbesheth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 son	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 smote	punct
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cast	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 cast	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 woman	det
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cast	nsubj
13	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 smote	parataxis
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 millstone	det
15	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 millstone	amod
16	millstone	millstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cast	obj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cast	obl
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 wall	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wall	det
21	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cast	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 died	punct
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 died	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 died	nsubj
25	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cast	advcl
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 Thebez	case
27	Thebez	Thebez	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 died	obl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 cast	punct
29	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	30 went	advmod
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 smote	parataxis
31	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 went	nsubj
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 nigh	advmod
33	nigh	nigh	ADP	_	35 wall	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wall	det
35	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 went	obl
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
37	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 say	advmod
38	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	40 say	aux
39	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	40 say	nsubj
40	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 smote	parataxis
41	:	:	PUNCT	_	48 dead	punct
42	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	43 servant	nmod:poss
43	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 dead	nsubj
44	Uriah	Uriah	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 servant	appos
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Hittite	det
46	Hittite	Hittite	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Uriah	appos
47	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 dead	cop
48	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 say	ccomp
49	also	also	ADV	_	48 dead	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 smote	punct
51	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 smote	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed form=q, act=ask, voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smite	past		Abimelech				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus abimelech=Experiencer
2	not cast	past · do-support	a woman	a upper millstone	the wall		upon Jerubbesheth	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent millstone=Product from wall=Material
3	die	past	Abimelech		Thebez			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	go	past	ye				nigh the wall	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	shall	thou			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	Thy servant				dead 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

מִֽי־הִכָּ֞ה אֶת־אֲבִימֶ֣לֶךְ בֶּן־יְרֻבֶּ֗שֶׁת הֲלֽוֹא־אִשָּׁ֡ה הִשְׁלִ֣יכָה עָלָיו֩ פֶּ֨לַח רֶ֜כֶב מֵעַ֤ל הַֽחוֹמָה֙ וַיָּ֣מָת בְּתֵבֵ֔ץ לָ֥מָּה נִגַּשְׁתֶּ֖ם אֶל־הַֽחוֹמָ֑ה וְאָ֣מַרְתָּ֔ גַּ֗ם עַבְדְּךָ֛ אוּרִיָּ֥ה הַחִתִּ֖י מֵֽת׃

2 Samuel 11:21: 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:290 of Mova's parse database.

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