2 Samuel 17:6 · JPS 1917
And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spoke unto him, saying: 'Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner; shall we do after his saying? if not, speak thou.'
Who acts: Absalom, Ahithophel, we, thou · What happens: come, speak, say, do · To what, where: Hushai, Absalom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 2 Samuel 17:6 · 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 (Absalom, Ahithophel, we, thou), 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 | _ | 10 spoke | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 come | mark |
| 3 | Hushai | Hushai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux:pass |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 spoke | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Absalom | case |
| 7 | Absalom | Absalom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 9 | Absalom | Absalom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 spoke | nsubj |
| 10 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spoke | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saying | punct |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 spoke | advcl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 spoken | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 spoken | punct |
| 17 | Ahithophel | Ahithophel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 spoken | nsubj |
| 18 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 spoken | aux |
| 19 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 saying | ccomp |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 manner | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 manner | det |
| 22 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spoken | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 do | punct |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 do | aux |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 do | nsubj |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 spoke | parataxis |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 29 saying | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 saying | nmod:poss |
| 29 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 do | obl |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 26 do | punct |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 not | mark |
| 32 | not | not | ADV | Polarity=Neg | 34 speak | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 not | punct |
| 34 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 spoke | parataxis |
| 35 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 speak | nsubj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 spoke | punct |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- suggest
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · passive | Hushai | Absalom | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | Absalom | unto Hushai | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | Absalom not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | present · perfect | Ahithophel | after this manner | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | do | shall | we | after Absalom's saying | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | speak speech: other | infinitive | thou | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | say | Absalom | nom saying «communication 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
וַיָּבֹ֣א חוּשַׁי֮ אֶל־אַבְשָׁלוֹם֒ וַיֹּאמֶר֩ אַבְשָׁל֨וֹם אֵלָ֜יו לֵאמֹ֗ר כַּדָּבָ֤ר הַזֶּה֙ דִּבֶּ֣ר אֲחִיתֹ֔פֶל הֲנַעֲשֶׂ֖ה אֶת־דְּבָר֑וֹ אִם־אַ֖יִן אַתָּ֥ה דַבֵּֽר׃ס
2 Samuel 17:6: 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:486 of Mova's parse database.
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