2 Samuel 16:23 · JPS 1917

Now the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man inquired of the word of God; so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

Who acts: counsel, man · What happens: counsel, inquire, be, word · To what, where: counsel, God

This is 2 Samuel 16:23 · 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 (counsel, man), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 was	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 counsel	det
3	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Ahithophel	case
5	Ahithophel	Ahithophel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 counsel	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 counselled	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 counselled	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 counselled	nsubj
9	counselled	counsel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 counsel	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 days	case
11	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 days	det
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 counselled	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 counsel	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 if	fixed
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 inquired	mark
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 inquired	nsubj
19	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 was	advcl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 word	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 word	det
22	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 inquired	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 God	case
24	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 word	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 counsel	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	30 counsel	advmod
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 counsel	cop
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 counsel	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 counsel	det
30	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	parataxis
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Ahithophel	case
32	Ahithophel	Ahithophel	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 counsel	nmod
33	both	both	CCONJ	_	35 David	cc:preconj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 David	case
35	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 counsel	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 Absalom	cc
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 Absalom	case
38	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 David	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 was	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed polarity=pos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	counsel speech: other	past	counsel	the counsel of Ahithophel	day		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient
2	inquire speech: other	past	a man			of the word of God	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of word=Recipient
3	is a	past		all counsel		of Ahithophel; with David and Absalom	tree rules
4	word			God			nom word «communication 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

וַעֲצַ֣ת אֲחִיתֹ֗פֶל אֲשֶׁ֤ר יָעַץ֙ בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵ֔ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר יִשְׁאַל־אִ֖ישׁ בִּדְבַ֣ר הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים כֵּ֚ן כָּל־עֲצַ֣ת אֲחִיתֹ֔פֶל גַּם־לְדָוִ֖ד גַּ֥ם לְאַבְשָׁלֹֽם׃ס

2 Samuel 16:23: 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:480 of Mova's parse database.

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