2 Samuel 12:19 · JPS 1917

But when David saw that his servants whispered together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said unto his servants: 'Is the child dead?' And they said: 'He is dead.'

Who acts: David, servants, child, children · What happens: see, whisper, perceive, be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 12:19 · 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, servants, child, children), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 perceived	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 saw	mark
3	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 perceived	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 whispered	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 servants	nmod:poss
7	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 whispered	nsubj
8	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	ccomp
9	together	together	ADV	_	8 whispered	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
11	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 perceived	nsubj
12	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 dead	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 child	det
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dead	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dead	cop
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 perceived	ccomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
20	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 perceived	conj
22	unto	unto	ADP	_	24 servants	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 servants	nmod:poss
24	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 said	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 dead	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 dead	punct
27	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 dead	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 child	det
29	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dead	nsubj
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 said	ccomp
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	30 dead	punct
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 dead	punct
33	And	and	CCONJ	_	35 said	cc
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 said	nsubj
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 perceived	conj
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	40 dead	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	40 dead	punct
38	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 dead	nsubj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 dead	cop
40	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 said	ccomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 dead	punct
42	'	'	PUNCT	_	40 dead	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: express
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	see	past	David		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	whisper speech: assert	past	David's servants	together property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	perceive	past	David		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	the child	dead property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	David	unto David's servants	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	the child	dead property	tree rules
7	say speech: assert	past	children = child		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	is	present	David	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

וַיַּ֣רְא דָּוִ֗ד כִּ֤י עֲבָדָיו֙ מִֽתְלַחֲשִׁ֔ים וַיָּ֥בֶן דָּוִ֖ד כִּ֣י מֵ֣ת הַיָּ֑לֶד וַיֹּ֨אמֶר דָּוִ֧ד אֶל־עֲבָדָ֛יו הֲמֵ֥ת הַיֶּ֖לֶד וַיֹּ֥אמְרוּ מֵֽת׃

2 Samuel 12:19: 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:321 of Mova's parse database.

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