2 Samuel 12:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said: 'Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke unto him, and he hearkened not unto our voice; how then shall we tell him that the child is dead, so that he do himself some harm?'

Who acts: servants, child, children, we, David · What happens: fear, tell, be, say, speak, not hearken · To what, where: David, harm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 12:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (servants, child, children, we), 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	_	6 feared	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 servants	det
3	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 feared	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 David	case
5	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 servants	nmod
6	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 tell	mark
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 feared	xcomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 dead	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 child	det
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dead	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dead	cop
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tell	ccomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 said	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feared	advcl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 spoke	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 spoke	punct
21	Behold	behold	INTJ	_	31 spoke	discourse
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Behold	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 alive	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 child	det
25	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 alive	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 alive	cop
27	yet	yet	ADV	_	28 alive	advmod
28	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 spoke	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 alive	punct
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 spoke	nsubj
31	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
32	unto	unto	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 spoke	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hearkened	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 hearkened	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 hearkened	nsubj
37	hearkened	hearken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 spoke	conj
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 hearkened	advmod
39	unto	unto	ADP	_	41 voice	case
40	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 voice	nmod:poss
41	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hearkened	obl
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 tell	punct
43	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	47 tell	advmod
44	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 tell	advmod
45	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 tell	aux
46	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 tell	nsubj
47	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 spoke	parataxis
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 tell	iobj
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 dead	mark
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 child	det
51	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 dead	nsubj
52	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 dead	cop
53	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 tell	ccomp
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 do	punct
55	so	so	SCONJ	_	58 do	mark
56	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 so	fixed
57	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 do	nsubj
58	do	do	VERB	Mood=Sub VerbForm=Fin	47 tell	advcl
59	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	58 do	iobj
60	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	61 harm	det
61	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 do	obj
62	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 spoke	punct
63	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, polarity=none, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	the servants of David					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the servants of David not said here		David			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is	past	the child				dead property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	children = child					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is	past	the child			yet	alive property	tree rules
6	speak speech: other	past	we				unto David	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not hearken	past	David				unto our voice	tree rules
8	tell speech: assert	shall	we		David	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
9	is	present	the child				dead property	tree rules
10	do	infinitive	David	some harm	David			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

וַיְהִ֛י בַּיּ֥וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֖י וַיָּ֣מָת הַיָּ֑לֶד וַיִּֽרְאוּ֩ עַבְדֵ֨י דָוִ֜ד לְהַגִּ֥יד ל֣וֹ ׀ כִּי־מֵ֣ת הַיֶּ֗לֶד כִּ֤י אָֽמְרוּ֙ הִנֵּה֩ בִהְי֨וֹת הַיֶּ֜לֶד חַ֗י דִּבַּ֤רְנוּ אֵלָיו֙ וְלֹא־שָׁמַ֣ע בְּקוֹלֵ֔נוּ וְאֵ֨יךְ נֹאמַ֥ר אֵלָ֛יו מֵ֥ת הַיֶּ֖לֶד וְעָשָׂ֥ה רָעָֽה׃

2 Samuel 12:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

This verse in JPS 1917:

And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died.
And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said: 'Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke unto him, and he hearkened not unto our voice; how then shall we tell him that the child is dead, so that he do himself some harm?'

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2SA:320 of Mova's parse database.

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