2 Samuel 16:2 · JPS 1917

And the king said unto Ziba: 'What meanest thou by these?' And Ziba said: 'The asses are for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as are faint in the wilderness may drink.'

Who acts: king, thou, Ziba, asses, bread · What happens: say, mean, be, ride on, eat, drink · To what, where: wilderness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 16:2 · 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 (king, thou, Ziba, asses), 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 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	unto	unto	ADP	_	6 Ziba	case
6	Ziba	Ziba	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 meanest	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 meanest	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 meanest	obj
10	meanest	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
11	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 meanest	nsubj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 these	case
13	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 meanest	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 meanest	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 meanest	punct
16	And	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
17	Ziba	Ziba	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 household	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 household	punct
21	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 asses	det
22	asses	ass	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 household	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 household	cop
24	for	for	ADP	_	28 household	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 king	det
26	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 household	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 king	case
28	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 ride	mark
30	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 household	acl
31	on	on	ADP	_	30 ride	compound:prt
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	59 drink	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bread	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bread	det
35	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 drink	nsubj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 fruit	cc
37	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fruit	compound
38	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bread	conj
39	for	for	SCONJ	_	44 eat	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 men	det
41	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 men	amod
42	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 bread	nmod
43	to	to	PART	_	44 eat	mark
44	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 men	acl
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 wine	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 wine	cc
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 wine	det
48	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bread	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 drink	punct
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	59 drink	mark
51	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	54 faint	mark
52	as	as	ADP	_	51 such	fixed
53	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 faint	cop
54	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 drink	advcl
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 wilderness	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 wilderness	det
57	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 faint	obl
58	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 drink	aux
59	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
61	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=ask

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king		unto Ziba	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mean	present	thou		by these	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	Ziba			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	the asses		for the king's household	tree rules
5	ride on	to-infinitive	Ziba not said here			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	eat	to-infinitive	the bread the young men and summer fruit and the wine not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	the bread the young men and summer fruit and the wine not said here	the wilderness	faint property	tree rules
8	drink	may	the bread the young men and summer fruit and the wine			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

וַיֹּ֧אמֶר הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ אֶל־צִיבָ֖א מָה־אֵ֣לֶּה לָּ֑ךְ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר צִ֠יבָא הַחֲמוֹרִ֨ים לְבֵית־הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ לִרְכֹּ֗ב וְהַלֶּ֤חֶם וְהַקַּ֙יִץ֙ לֶאֱכ֣וֹל הַנְּעָרִ֔ים וְהַיַּ֕יִן לִשְׁתּ֥וֹת הַיָּעֵ֖ף בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃

2 Samuel 16:2: 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:458 of Mova's parse database.

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