2 Samuel 16:4 · JPS 1917
Then said the king to Ziba: 'Behold, thine is all that pertaineth unto Mephibosheth.' And Ziba said: 'I prostrate myself; let me find favour in thy sight, my lord, O king.'
Who acts: king, thine, Ziba, I, me, thy · What happens: say, be, pertain, prostrate, let, find · To what, where: Ziba, all, myself, me, favour, sight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 2 Samuel 16:4 · 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, thine, Ziba, I), 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 | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Ziba | case |
| 6 | Ziba | Ziba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 all | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 all | punct |
| 9 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 13 all | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Behold | punct |
| 11 | thine | thy | PRON | Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 all | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 all | cop |
| 13 | all | all | PRON | PronType=Tot | 2 said | ccomp |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 pertaineth | nsubj |
| 15 | pertaineth | pertain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 all | acl:relcl |
| 16 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 17 Mephibosheth | case |
| 17 | Mephibosheth | Mephibosheth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 pertaineth | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 all | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 all | punct |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 21 | Ziba | Ziba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 prostrate | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 prostrate | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 prostrate | nsubj |
| 26 | prostrate | prostrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 said | ccomp |
| 27 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 prostrate | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 let | punct |
| 29 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 said | ccomp |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 let | obj |
| 31 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 let | xcomp |
| 32 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 find | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 sight | case |
| 34 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 sight | nmod:poss |
| 35 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 find | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 lord | punct |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 lord | nmod:poss |
| 38 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sight | appos |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 king | punct |
| 40 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 41 king | discourse |
| 41 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 lord | appos |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- offer
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | Ziba | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to ziba=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | thine | all | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pertain | present | unto Mephibosheth | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Ziba | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | prostrate | present | I | myself | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | find | infinitive | me not said here | favour | thy sight | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic | |||
| 8 | sight | thy | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ לְצִבָ֔א הִנֵּ֣ה לְךָ֔ כֹּ֖ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר לִמְפִי־בֹ֑שֶׁתמְפִי־בֹ֑שֶׁת וַיֹּ֤אמֶר צִיבָא֙ הִֽשְׁתַּחֲוֵ֔יתִי אֶמְצָא־חֵ֥ן בְּעֵינֶ֖יךָ אֲדֹנִ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃
2 Samuel 16:4: 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:460 of Mova's parse database.
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