2 Samuel 14:2 · JPS 1917
And Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her: 'I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, I pray thee, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead;
Who acts: Joab, I, woman · What happens: send, fetch, say, pray, feign, be · To what, where: Tekoa, wise woman, thee, thyself, mourner, mourning apparel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 2 Samuel 14:2 · 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, woman), 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 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Tekoa | case |
| 5 | Tekoa | Tekoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fetched | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fetched | cc |
| 8 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 9 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 8 fetched | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fetched | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 16 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 feign | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 feign | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 pray | nsubj |
| 21 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 feign | parataxis |
| 22 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 pray | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pray | punct |
| 24 | feign | feign | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 25 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 24 feign | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 mourner | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 mourner | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 mourner | det |
| 29 | mourner | mourner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 feign | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 put | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 put | cc |
| 32 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 feign | conj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 put | compound:prt |
| 34 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 apparel | compound |
| 35 | apparel | apparel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 put | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 pray | punct |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 pray | nsubj |
| 38 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 put | parataxis |
| 39 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 38 pray | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 anoint | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 anoint | cc |
| 42 | anoint | anoint | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 feign | conj |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 anoint | advmod |
| 44 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 42 anoint | obj |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 oil | case |
| 46 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 anoint | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 woman | punct |
| 48 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 52 woman | cc |
| 49 | be | be | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 52 woman | cop |
| 50 | as | as | ADP | _ | 52 woman | case |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 woman | det |
| 52 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 feign | conj |
| 53 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 58 mourned | nsubj |
| 54 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 58 mourned | aux |
| 55 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 57 time | det |
| 56 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 time | amod |
| 57 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 mourned | obl:unmarked |
| 58 | mourned | mourn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 52 woman | acl:relcl |
| 59 | for | for | ADP | _ | 61 dead | case |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 dead | det |
| 61 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 mourned | obl |
| 62 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Joab | Tekoa | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to tekoa=Destination | ||||
| 2 | fetch | past | Joab not said here | a wise woman | thence property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Joab not said here | unto Joab | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | pray | present | I | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feign | infinitive | thyself | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thyself=Patient | |||||
| 6 | is a | to-infinitive | a mourner | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | put on | infinitive | mourning apparel | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent apparel=Goal | |||||
| 8 | pray | present | I | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | not anoint | infinitive | thyself | with oil | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent thyself=Destination with oil=Theme | ||||
| 10 | is | infinitive | as a woman | tree rules | |||||
| 11 | mourn | past · perfect | a woman | time | for the dead | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for dead=Attribute |
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
וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח יוֹאָב֙ תְּק֔וֹעָה וַיִּקַּ֥ח מִשָּׁ֖ם אִשָּׁ֣ה חֲכָמָ֑ה וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵ֠לֶיהָ הִֽתְאַבְּלִי־נָ֞א וְלִבְשִׁי־נָ֣א בִגְדֵי־אֵ֗בֶל וְאַל־תָּס֙וּכִי֙ שֶׁ֔מֶן וְהָיִ֕ית כְּאִשָּׁ֗ה זֶ֚ה יָמִ֣ים רַבִּ֔ים מִתְאַבֶּ֖לֶת עַל־מֵֽת׃
2 Samuel 14:2: 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:385 of Mova's parse database.
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