2 Samuel 15:5 · JPS 1917

And it was so, that when any man came nigh to prostrate himself before him, he put forth his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.

Who acts: it, man, Absalom · What happens: be, come, prostrate, put, take, kiss · To what, where: Absalom, hand, hold

This is 2 Samuel 15:5 · 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 (it, man, Absalom), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 so	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 so	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 so	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 put	advcl
11	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 prostrate	mark
13	prostrate	prostrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 came	advcl
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 prostrate	obj
15	before	before	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 prostrate	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 put	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 put	nsubj
19	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 so	csubj
20	forth	forth	ADV	_	19 put	advmod
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hand	nmod:poss
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 took	cc
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 put	conj
26	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hold	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 kissed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 kissed	cc
31	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 put	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 kissed	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 so	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it			so property	tree rules
2	come	past	any man			nigh property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	prostrate	to-infinitive	any man not said here	Absalom	before Absalom		tree rules
4	put	past	Absalom	Absalom's hand		forth property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
5	take	past	Absalom not said here	hold of Absalom			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
6	kiss	past	Absalom not said here	Absalom			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
7	hold			Absalom			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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

וְהָיָה֙ בִּקְרָב־אִ֔ישׁ לְהִשְׁתַּחֲוֺ֖ת ל֑וֹ וְשָׁלַ֧ח אֶת־יָד֛וֹ וְהֶחֱזִ֥יק ל֖וֹ וְנָ֥שַׁק לֽוֹ׃

2 Samuel 15:5: 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:422 of Mova's parse database.

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