2 Samuel 2:8 · JPS 1917

Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, had taken Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

Who acts: Abner · What happens: take, bring over · To what, where: Ish bosheth, Saul, Mahanaim

This is 2 Samuel 2:8 · 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 (Abner), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 taken	advmod
2	Abner	Abner	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 taken	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Abner	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Ner	case
6	Ner	Ner	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 captain	punct
8	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Abner	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 host	case
10	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 host	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Saul	case
12	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 captain	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Abner	punct
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 taken	aux
15	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
16	Ish	Ish	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 bosheth	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 bosheth	punct
18	bosheth	Bosheth	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 taken	obj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 son	det
20	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bosheth	appos
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Saul	case
22	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 son	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 brought	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 brought	cc
25	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 taken	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 brought	obj
27	over	over	ADP	_	25 brought	compound:prt
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 Mahanaim	case
29	Mahanaim	Mahanaim	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 brought	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 taken	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · perfect	Abner		Ish bosheth		now		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bosheth=Destination
2	bring over	past	Abner not said here	Saul	Mahanaim				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to mahanaim=Destination

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

וְאַבְנֵ֣ר בֶּן־נֵ֔ר שַׂר־צָבָ֖א אֲשֶׁ֣ר לְשָׁא֑וּל לָקַ֗ח אֶת־אִ֥ישׁ בֹּ֙שֶׁת֙ אִ֥ישׁ בֹּ֙שֶׁת֙ בֶּן־שָׁא֔וּל וַיַּעֲבִרֵ֖הוּ מַחֲנָֽיִם׃

2 Samuel 2:8: 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:41 of Mova's parse database.

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