2 Samuel 12:27 · JPS 1917

And Joab sent messengers to David, and said: 'I have fought against Rabbah, yea, I have taken the city of waters.

Who acts: Joab, I · What happens: send, say, fight, take · To what, where: messengers, David, city · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 12:27 · 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 (Joab, I), 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	_	3 sent	cc
2	Joab	Joab	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 David	case
6	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 fought	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 fought	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 fought	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fought	aux
14	fought	fight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
15	against	against	ADP	_	16 Rabbah	case
16	Rabbah	Rabbah	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 fought	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 taken	punct
18	yea	yea	INTJ	_	22 taken	discourse
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 yea	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 taken	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 taken	aux
22	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 fought	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 city	det
24	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 taken	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 waters	case
26	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 city	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	Joab	messengers	David		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to david=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	Joab not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fight	present · perfect	I			against Rabbah	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	take	present · perfect	I	the city of waters			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme

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

וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח יוֹאָ֛ב מַלְאָכִ֖ים אֶל־דָּוִ֑ד וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ נִלְחַ֣מְתִּי בְרַבָּ֔ה גַּם־לָכַ֖דְתִּי אֶת־עִ֥יר הַמָּֽיִם׃

2 Samuel 12:27: 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:331 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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