2 Samuel 14:6 · JPS 1917

And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and killed him.

Who acts: handmaid, words, one · What happens: have, strive, part, smite, kill · To what, where: two sons, field, words, other, handmaid

This is 2 Samuel 14:6 · 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 (handmaid, words, one), 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	_	4 had	cc
2	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 handmaid	nmod:poss
3	handmaid	handmaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sons	nummod
6	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 strove	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 strove	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 strove	nsubj
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 they	appos
11	strove	strive	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
12	together	together	ADV	_	11 strove	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 field	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 field	det
15	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 strove	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 was	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 was	cc
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 was	expl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
20	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	19 was	nsubj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 part	mark
22	part	part	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 none	acl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 part	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 smote	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 smote	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 smote	nsubj
28	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 other	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 smote	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 killed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 killed	cc
33	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 smote	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 killed	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	thy handmaid	two sons			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	strive	past	words = word		the field	together property	tree rules
3	part	to-infinitive	thy handmaid not said here	words = word			vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	smite	past	the one	the other			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus other=Experiencer
5	kill	past	the one not said here	handmaid			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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

וּלְשִׁפְחָֽתְךָ֙ שְׁנֵ֣י בָנִ֔ים וַיִּנָּצ֤וּ שְׁנֵיהֶם֙ בַּשָּׂדֶ֔ה וְאֵ֥ין מַצִּ֖יל בֵּֽינֵיהֶ֑ם וַיַּכּ֧וֹ הָאֶחָ֛ד אֶת־הָאֶחָ֖ד וַיָּ֥מֶת אֹתֽוֹ׃

2 Samuel 14:6: 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:389 of Mova's parse database.

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