2 Samuel 14:4 · JPS 1917
And when the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and prostrated herself, and said: 'Help, O king.'
Who acts: woman · What happens: speak, fall, prostrate, say, help · To what, where: face, woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 2 Samuel 14:4 · 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 (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 | _ | 13 fell | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 spoke | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Tekoa | case |
| 6 | Tekoa | Tekoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 woman | nmod |
| 7 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fell | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 king | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spoke | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spoke | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 face | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 face | nmod:poss |
| 16 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 ground | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 prostrated | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 prostrated | cc |
| 22 | prostrated | prostrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fell | conj |
| 23 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 prostrated | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fell | conj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 Help | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 Help | punct |
| 29 | Help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 said | ccomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 king | punct |
| 31 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 32 king | discourse |
| 32 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Help | vocative |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 Help | punct |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 Help | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- other
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=other, act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the woman of Tekoa | to the king | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to king=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | woman | woman's face | to the ground | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=Location | |||
| 3 | prostrate | past | woman not said here | woman | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | help | infinitive | king vocative | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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
וַ֠תֹּאמֶר הָאִשָּׁ֤ה הַתְּקֹעִית֙ אֶל־הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וַתִּפֹּ֧ל עַל־אַפֶּ֛יהָ אַ֖רְצָה וַתִּשְׁתָּ֑חוּ וַתֹּ֖אמֶר הוֹשִׁ֥עָה הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס
2 Samuel 14:4: 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:387 of Mova's parse database.
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