2 Samuel 13:4 · JPS 1917
And he said unto him: 'Why, O son of the king, art thou thus becoming leaner from day to day? wilt thou not tell me?' And Amnon said unto him: 'I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.'
Who acts: Amnon, thou, I · What happens: say, become, not tell, love · To what, where: me, Tamar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 2 Samuel 13:4 · 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 (Amnon, thou, 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 said | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 becoming | punct |
| 8 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 becoming | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Why | punct |
| 10 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 11 son | discourse |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 becoming | vocative |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 son | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 son | punct |
| 16 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 becoming | aux |
| 17 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 becoming | nsubj |
| 18 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 19 becoming | advmod |
| 19 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 said | ccomp |
| 20 | leaner | lean | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 becoming | xcomp |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 day | case |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 becoming | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 day | case |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 day | nmod |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 becoming | punct |
| 26 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 29 tell | aux |
| 27 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 tell | nsubj |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 tell | advmod |
| 29 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 becoming | parataxis |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 tell | iobj |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 29 tell | punct |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 becoming | punct |
| 33 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 said | cc |
| 34 | Amnon | Amnon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 said | nsubj |
| 35 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 36 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 said | obl |
| 38 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 41 love | punct |
| 39 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 love | punct |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 love | nsubj |
| 41 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 said | ccomp |
| 42 | Tamar | Tamar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 love | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 brother | punct |
| 44 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 brother | nmod:poss |
| 45 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 sister | nmod:poss |
| 46 | Absalom | Absalom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 brother | appos |
| 47 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 46 Absalom | case |
| 48 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Tamar | appos |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 love | punct |
| 50 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 love | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=ask, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Amnon | unto man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | become | present · progressive | thou | day | son of the king vocative; lean, thus property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert | future | thou | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Amnon | unto man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | love | present | I | Tamar | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tamar=Stimulus |
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
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר ל֗וֹ מַדּ֣וּעַ אַ֠תָּה כָּ֣כָה דַּ֤ל בֶּן־הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ בַּבֹּ֣קֶר בַּבֹּ֔קֶר הֲל֖וֹא תַּגִּ֣יד לִ֑י וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לוֹ֙ אַמְנ֔וֹן אֶת־תָּמָ֗ר אֲח֛וֹת אַבְשָׁלֹ֥ם אָחִ֖י אֲנִ֥י אֹהֵֽב׃
2 Samuel 13:4: 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:341 of Mova's parse database.
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