2 Samuel 16:13 · JPS 1917

So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hill-side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.

Who acts: David, Shimei · What happens: go, go along, curse, throw, cast · To what, where: hill side, stones, dust

This is 2 Samuel 16:13 · 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 (David, Shimei), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
2	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 men	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 men	nmod:poss
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 David	conj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
12	Shimei	Shimei	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
14	along	along	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	19 side	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 side	det
17	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 side	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 hill	punct
19	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
20	over	over	ADV	_	22 him	advmod
21	against	against	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cursed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cursed	cc
25	cursed	curse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 went	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 went	nsubj
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 cursed	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 threw	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 threw	cc
31	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
32	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 threw	obj
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 threw	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 cast	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 cast	cc
37	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 threw	conj
38	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cast	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	David and David's men			by the way	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by way=Location
2	go along	past	Shimei		the hill side	against David; along property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on side=Location
3	curse	past	Shimei not said here				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	go	past	David				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	throw	past	Shimei not said here	stones		at David	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at he=Destination
6	cast	past	Shimei not said here	dust			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=Product

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

וַיֵּ֧לֶךְ דָּוִ֛ד וַאֲנָשָׁ֖יו בַּדָּ֑רֶךְס וְשִׁמְעִ֡י הֹלֵךְ֩ בְּצֵ֨לַע הָהָ֜ר לְעֻמָּת֗וֹ הָלוֹךְ֙ וַיְקַלֵּ֔ל וַיְסַקֵּ֤ל בָּֽאֲבָנִים֙ לְעֻמָּת֔וֹ וְעִפַּ֖ר בֶּעָפָֽר׃פ

2 Samuel 16:13: 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:470 of Mova's parse database.

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