2 Samuel 12:21 · JPS 1917

Then said his servants unto him: 'What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.'

Who acts: servants, thing, thou, child · What happens: say, be, do, fast, weep, rise · To what, where: this, bread · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 12:21 · 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 (servants, thing, thou, child), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 servants	nmod:poss
4	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	nsubj
5	unto	unto	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 this	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 this	punct
9	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	10 thing	det
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 this	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 this	cop
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 said	ccomp
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 done	obj
14	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 done	nsubj
15	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 done	aux
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 this	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 this	punct
18	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 fast	nsubj
19	didst	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fast	aux
20	fast	fast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 this	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 weep	cc
22	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 fast	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 child	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 child	det
25	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 weep	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 alive	punct
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 alive	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 alive	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 alive	cop
30	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 weep	advcl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 rise	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 rise	cc
33	when	when	SCONJ	_	37 dead	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 child	det
35	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 dead	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 dead	cop
37	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 rise	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 dead	punct
39	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	41 rise	nsubj
40	didst	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 rise	aux
41	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 fast	conj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 eat	cc
43	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 rise	conj
44	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 eat	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
46	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: neg
indirect: yes
teacher: changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=1

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	David's servants		then	unto David	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	what thing	this			tree rules
3	do	present · perfect	thou				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
4	fast	past · do-support	thou				tree rules
5	weep	infinitive	thou not said here			for the child	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	thing			alive property	tree rules
7	is	past	the child			dead property	tree rules
8	rise	past · do-support	thou				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	eat	infinitive	thou not said here	bread			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient

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

וַיֹּאמְר֤וּ עֲבָדָיו֙ אֵלָ֔יו מָֽה־הַדָּבָ֥ר הַזֶּ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשִׂ֑יתָה בַּעֲב֞וּר הַיֶּ֤לֶד חַי֙ צַ֣מְתָּ וַתֵּ֔בְךְּ וְכַֽאֲשֶׁר֙ מֵ֣ת הַיֶּ֔לֶד קַ֖מְתָּ וַתֹּ֥אכַל לָֽחֶם׃

2 Samuel 12:21: 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:323 of Mova's parse database.

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