2 Samuel 12:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

Wherefore hast thou despised the word of the LORD, to do that which is evil in My sight?

Who acts: thou, My · What happens: despise, do, be, word, sight · To what, where: word, that, sight, LORD

This is 2 Samuel 12:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (thou, My), 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	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	4 despised	advmod
2	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 despised	aux
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 despised	nsubj
4	despised	despise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 despised	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 LORD	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 LORD	det
9	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 word	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 despised	advcl
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 do	obj
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 evil	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 evil	cop
16	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 that	acl:relcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 sight	case
18	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sight	nmod:poss
19	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 evil	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 despised	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	despise	present · perfect	thou	the word of the LORD		wherefore property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	do	to-infinitive	thou not said here	that			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
3	is	present			My sight	evil property	tree rules
4	word			the LORD			nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient
5	sight		My				nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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

מַדּ֜וּעַ בָּזִ֣יתָ ׀ אֶת־דְּבַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת הָרַע֮ בְּעֵינַי֒ אֵ֣ת אוּרִיָּ֤ה הַֽחִתִּי֙ הִכִּ֣יתָ בַחֶ֔רֶב וְאֶ֨ת־אִשְׁתּ֔וֹ לָקַ֥חְתָּ לְּךָ֖ לְאִשָּׁ֑ה וְאֹת֣וֹ הָרַ֔גְתָּ בְּחֶ֖רֶב בְּנֵ֥י עַמּֽוֹן׃

2 Samuel 12:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

This verse in JPS 1917:

Wherefore hast thou despised the word of the LORD, to do that which is evil in My sight?
Uriah the Hittite thou hast smitten with the sword, and his wife thou hast taken to be thy wife, and him thou hast slain with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2SA:308 of Mova's parse database.

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