2 Samuel 13:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was lying down.
Who acts: Tamar, Amnon · What happens: go, lie down · To what, where: house
This is 2 Samuel 13:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (Tamar, Amnon), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Tamar | Tamar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Amnon | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Amnon | compound |
| 7 | Amnon | Amnon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Amnon | case |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 lying | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lying | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lying | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lying | aux |
| 14 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 lying | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
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- act
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- voice
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Tamar | Tamar's brother Amnon's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | lie down | past · progressive | Amnon | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
וַתֵּ֣לֶךְ תָּמָ֗ר בֵּ֛ית אַמְנ֥וֹן אָחִ֖יהָ וְה֣וּא שֹׁכֵ֑ב וַתִּקַּ֨ח אֶת־הַבָּצֵ֤ק וַתָּ֙לָשׁ֙ וַתְּלַבֵּ֣ב לְעֵינָ֔יו וַתְּבַשֵּׁ֖ל אֶת־הַלְּבִבֽוֹת׃
2 Samuel 13:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was lying down.
- And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2SA:345 of Mova's parse database.
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