2 Samuel 14:31 · JPS 1917

Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his house, and said unto him: 'Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?'

Who acts: Joab, servants · What happens: arise, come, say, set · To what, where: Absalom, field, fire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 14:31 · 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 (Joab, servants), 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	3 arose	advmod
2	Joab	Joab	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 arose	nsubj
3	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 came	cc
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arose	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Absalom	case
8	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
9	unto	unto	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 house	nmod:poss
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arose	conj
15	unto	unto	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 set	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 set	punct
19	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	23 set	advmod
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 set	aux
21	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 servants	nmod:poss
22	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 set	nsubj
23	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 said	ccomp
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 field	nmod:poss
25	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 set	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 fire	case
27	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 set	obl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 set	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 set	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arise	past	Joab			then		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	Joab not said here		Absalom		unto Absalom's house	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to absalom=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	Joab not said here				unto Absalom	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	set	present · perfect	thy servants	my field	fire		wherefore property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme on fire=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

וַיָּ֣קָם יוֹאָ֔ב וַיָּבֹ֥א אֶל־אַבְשָׁל֖וֹם הַבָּ֑יְתָה וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֔יו לָ֣מָּה הִצִּ֧יתוּ עֲבָדֶ֛ךָ אֶת־הַחֶלְקָ֥ה אֲשֶׁר־לִ֖י בָּאֵֽשׁ׃

2 Samuel 14:31: 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:415 of Mova's parse database.

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