2 Samuel 12:16 · JPS 1917

David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and as often as he went in, he lay all night upon the earth.

Who acts: David · What happens: beseech, fast, go in, lie · To what, where: God, earth

This is 2 Samuel 12:16 · 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 (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	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 besought	nsubj
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 besought	advmod
3	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 besought	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 child	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 besought	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 fasted	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fasted	cc
10	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 fasted	nsubj
11	fasted	fast	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 besought	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lay	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lay	cc
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 often	advmod
15	often	often	ADV	_	18 went	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 went	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lay	advcl
19	in	in	ADV	_	18 went	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lay	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lay	nsubj
22	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 besought	conj
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 night	det
24	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lay	obl:unmarked
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 earth	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 earth	det
27	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lay	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 besought	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beseech	past	David	God			for the child; therefore property	tree rules
2	fast	past	David					tree rules
3	go in	past	David				often property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lie	past	David		the earth	night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon earth=Location

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

וַיְבַקֵּ֥שׁ דָּוִ֛ד אֶת־הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים בְּעַ֣ד הַנָּ֑עַר וַיָּ֤צָם דָּוִד֙ צ֔וֹם וּבָ֥א וְלָ֖ן וְשָׁכַ֥ב אָֽרְצָה׃

2 Samuel 12:16: 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:317 of Mova's parse database.

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