2 Samuel 14:14 · JPS 1917

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person; but let him devise means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.

Who acts: we, God · What happens: die, be, spill, not gather up, respect, let · To what, where: water, ground, person, God, means, outcast

This is 2 Samuel 14:14 · 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 (we, God), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	5 die	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 die	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 die	aux
4	needs	needs	ADV	_	5 die	advmod
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 water	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 water	cc
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 water	cop
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 water	case
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 die	conj
11	spilt	spill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 water	acl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 ground	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ground	det
14	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spilt	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gathered	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 gathered	nsubj:pass
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 gathered	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 gathered	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 gathered	aux:pass
20	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 water	acl:relcl
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 gathered	compound:prt
22	again	again	ADV	_	20 gathered	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 respect	punct
24	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	27 respect	cc
25	doth	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 respect	aux
26	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 respect	nsubj
27	respect	respect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 die	parataxis
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 person	det
29	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 respect	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 let	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 let	cc
32	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 respect	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 let	obj
34	devise	devise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 let	xcomp
35	means	means	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 devise	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 outcast	punct
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 outcast	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 outcast	nsubj
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 banished	nsubj:pass
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 banished	aux:pass
41	banished	banish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 he	acl:relcl
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 outcast	cop
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 outcast	advmod
44	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 outcast	det
45	outcast	outcast	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 devise	advcl
46	from	from	ADP	_	47 him	case
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 outcast	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 die	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: suggest
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=suggest

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	must	we				needs property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is	present	we not said here				as water	tree rules
3	spill	participle		water not said here	the ground			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location
4	not gather up	can · passive		water		again		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	respect	present · do-support	God	any person				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus
6	let	infinitive	God not said here	God				tree rules
7	devise	infinitive	God not said here	means				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent means=Patient
8	banish	present · passive						vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
9	not is a	infinitive	God	a outcast			from king	tree rules

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

כִּי־מ֣וֹת נָמ֔וּת וְכַמַּ֙יִם֙ הַנִּגָּרִ֣ים אַ֔רְצָה אֲשֶׁ֖ר לֹ֣א יֵאָסֵ֑פוּ וְלֹֽא־יִשָּׂ֤א אֱלֹהִים֙ נֶ֔פֶשׁ וְחָשַׁב֙ מַֽחֲשָׁב֔וֹת לְבִלְתִּ֛י יִדַּ֥ח מִמֶּ֖נּוּ נִדָּֽח׃

2 Samuel 14:14: 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:398 of Mova's parse database.

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