2 Samuel 2:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

And they told David, saying: 'The men of Jabesh-gilead were they that buried Saul.'

Who acts: men · What happens: tell, say, be, bury · To what, where: David, men, Saul · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 2:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (men), 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 told	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saying	punct
6	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 told	advcl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 they	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 they	punct
9	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 men	det
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 they	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 gilead	case
12	Jabesh	Jabesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 gilead	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 gilead	punct
14	gilead	gilead	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 men	nmod
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 they	cop
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saying	ccomp
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 buried	nsubj
18	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 they	acl:relcl
19	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 buried	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 they	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 they	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	men = man		David	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent david=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	gerund	men = man not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the men of Jabesh gilead	men = man		tree rules
4	bury	past		Saul		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saul=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

וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ אַנְשֵׁ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה וַיִּמְשְׁחוּ־שָׁ֧ם אֶת־דָּוִ֛ד לְמֶ֖לֶךְ עַל־בֵּ֣ית יְהוּדָ֑ה וַיַּגִּ֤דוּ לְדָוִד֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר אַנְשֵׁי֙ יָבֵ֣ישׁ גִּלְעָ֔ד יָבֵ֣ישׁ גִּלְעָ֔ד אֲשֶׁ֥ר קָבְר֖וּ אֶת־שָׁאֽוּל׃ס

2 Samuel 2:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

This verse in JPS 1917:

And the men of Judah came, and they there anointed David king over the house of Judah.
And they told David, saying: 'The men of Jabesh-gilead were they that buried Saul.'

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2SA:37 of Mova's parse database.

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