2 Samuel 14:12 · JPS 1917

Then the woman said: 'Let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak a word unto my lord the king.' And he said: 'Say on.'

Who acts: woman, I, king · What happens: say, let, pray, speak, say on · To what, where: handmaid, thee, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 14:12 · 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, I, king), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Let	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 Let	punct
7	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 handmaid	nmod:poss
9	handmaid	handmaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Let	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pray	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 pray	nsubj
12	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Let	parataxis
13	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 pray	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 speak	punct
15	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 Let	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 word	det
17	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 speak	obj
18	unto	unto	ADP	_	20 lord	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 lord	nmod:poss
20	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 speak	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 king	det
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lord	appos
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 Let	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 Let	punct
25	And	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 Say	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 Say	punct
30	Say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	ccomp
31	on	on	ADP	_	30 Say	compound:prt
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 Say	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 Say	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the woman		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	infinitive		thy handmaid			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handmaid=Theme
3	pray	present	I	thee			tree rules
4	speak speech: other	infinitive		a word		unto my lord	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	say on speech: assert	infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ הָֽאִשָּׁ֔ה תְּדַבֶּר־נָ֧א שִׁפְחָתְךָ֛ אֶל־אֲדֹנִ֥י הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ דָּבָ֑ר וַיֹּ֖אמֶר דַּבֵּֽרִי׃ס

2 Samuel 14:12: 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:396 of Mova's parse database.

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