2 Samuel 17:9 · JPS 1917

Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some place; and it will come to pass, when they fall upon them at the first, and whosoever heareth it shall say: There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom;

Who acts: place, father, whosoever, slaughter, people · What happens: hide, come, pass, fall, hear, say · To what, where: Hushai, pit, first, Absalom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 17:9 · 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 (place, father, whosoever, slaughter), 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	Behold	behold	INTJ	_	5 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Behold	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hid	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hid	aux:pass
5	hid	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 hid	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 pit	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 pit	det
9	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hid	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 place	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 place	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 place	case
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 place	det
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pit	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 come	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hid	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 pass	mark
21	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 come	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fall	punct
23	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 fall	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fall	nsubj
25	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 come	advcl
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fall	obl
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 first	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 first	det
30	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumType=Ord	25 fall	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 say	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 say	cc
33	whosoever	whosoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 heareth	nsubj
34	heareth	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 say	advcl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 heareth	nsubj
36	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 say	aux
37	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hid	conj
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	40 is	punct
39	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	40 is	expl
40	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 say	ccomp
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 slaughter	det
42	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 is	nsubj
43	among	among	ADP	_	45 people	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 people	det
45	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 slaughter	nmod
46	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 follow	nsubj
47	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 people	acl:relcl
48	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 follow	obj
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 hid	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present · passive		Hushai	some pit or some place	now		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in pit=Location
2	come	future	place					tree rules
3	pass	to-infinitive	place not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall	present	father		the first		upon pit	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location
5	hear	present	whosoever					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	say speech: assert	shall						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	be	present	a slaughter among the people		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	follow	present	the people	Absalom				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent absalom=Theme

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

הִנֵּ֨ה עַתָּ֤ה הֽוּא־נֶחְבָּא֙ בְּאַחַ֣ת הַפְּחָתִ֔ים א֖וֹ בְּאַחַ֣ד הַמְּקוֹמֹ֑ת וְהָיָ֗ה כִּנְפֹ֤ל בָּהֶם֙ בַּתְּחִלָּ֔ה וְשָׁמַ֤ע הַשֹּׁמֵ֙עַ֙ וְאָמַ֔ר הָֽיְתָה֙ מַגֵּפָ֔ה בָּעָ֕ם אֲשֶׁ֖ר אַחֲרֵ֥י אַבְשָׁלֹֽם׃

2 Samuel 17:9: 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:489 of Mova's parse database.

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