2 Samuel 1:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

I pray thee, tell me.' And he answered: 'The people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.'

Who acts: I, David, Saul · What happens: pray, tell, answer, flee, fall, be · To what, where: thee, me, people, battle, many · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 1:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (I, David, Saul), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 pray	nsubj
2	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 pray	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 pray	parataxis
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pray	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 pray	punct
9	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 answered	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 answered	nsubj
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pray	parataxis
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 fled	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 fled	punct
14	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fled	nsubj:pass
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 fled	aux:pass
17	fled	flee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 answered	ccomp
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 battle	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 battle	det
20	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fled	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fallen	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fallen	cc
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fallen	nsubj:pass
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 people	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 people	det
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 many	nmod
27	also	also	ADV	_	29 fallen	advmod
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 fallen	aux:pass
29	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 fled	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 dead	cc
31	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fallen	conj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 dead	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 dead	cc
34	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 dead	nsubj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 Jonathan	cc
36	Jonathan	Jonathan	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Saul	conj
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 son	nmod:poss
38	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 Jonathan	appos
39	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 dead	cop
40	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fled	conj
41	also	also	ADV	_	40 dead	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pray	punct
43	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 pray	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pray	present	I	thee				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive			me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	answer speech: assert	past	David					tree rules
4	flee	present · passive		the people		the battle		tree rules
5	fall	present · passive		many of the people				vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: subject=Result
6	is	present	Saul and Jonathan				dead property	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

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אֵלָ֥יו דָּוִ֛ד מֶה־הָיָ֥ה הַדָּבָ֖ר הַגֶּד־נָ֣א לִ֑י וַ֠יֹּאמֶר אֲשֶׁר־נָ֨ס הָעָ֜ם מִן־הַמִּלְחָמָ֗ה וְגַם־הַרְבֵּ֞ה נָפַ֤ל מִן־הָעָם֙ וַיָּמֻ֔תוּ וְגַ֗ם שָׁא֛וּל וִיהוֹנָתָ֥ן בְּנ֖וֹ מֵֽתוּ׃

2 Samuel 1:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

This verse in JPS 1917:

And David said unto him: 'How went the matter?
I pray thee, tell me.' And he answered: 'The people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.'

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2SA:4 of Mova's parse database.

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