2 Samuel 17:14 · JPS 1917

And Absalom and all the men of Israel said: 'The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.' — For the LORD had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.

Who acts: Absalom, counsel, LORD · What happens: say, be, ordain, defeat, bring · To what, where: good counsel, evil · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 17:14 · 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, counsel, LORD), 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	_	9 said	cc
2	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 men	cc
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 men	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 men	det
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Absalom	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Israel	case
8	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 men	nmod
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 better	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 better	punct
12	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 counsel	det
13	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 better	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Hushai	case
15	Hushai	Hushai	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 counsel	nmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Archite	det
17	Archite	Archite	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Hushai	appos
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 better	cop
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 said	ccomp
20	than	than	ADP	_	22 counsel	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 counsel	det
22	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 better	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Ahithophel	case
24	Ahithophel	Ahithophel	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 counsel	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 better	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 better	punct
27	—	-	PUNCT	_	32 ordained	punct
28	For	for	SCONJ	_	32 ordained	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 LORD	det
30	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 ordained	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 ordained	aux
32	ordained	ordain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	parataxis
33	to	to	PART	_	34 defeat	mark
34	defeat	defeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 ordained	xcomp
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 counsel	det
36	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 counsel	amod
37	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 defeat	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Ahithophel	case
39	Ahithophel	Ahithophel	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 counsel	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 intent	punct
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 intent	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 intent	det
43	intent	intent	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ordained	obl
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 bring	mark
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 LORD	det
46	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 bring	nsubj
47	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 bring	aux
48	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 intent	acl
49	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 bring	obj
50	upon	upon	ADP	_	51 Absalom	case
51	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 bring	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: character
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Absalom and all men of Israel			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the counsel of Hushai		than the counsel of Ahithophel; good property	tree rules
3	ordain	past · perfect	the LORD		to the intent	tree rules
4	defeat	to-infinitive	the LORD not said here	the good counsel of Ahithophel		tree rules
5	bring	might	the LORD	evil	upon Absalom	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent evil=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

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אַבְשָׁלוֹם֙ וְכָל־אִ֣ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל טוֹבָ֗ה עֲצַת֙ חוּשַׁ֣י הָאַרְכִּ֔י מֵעֲצַ֖ת אֲחִיתֹ֑פֶל וַיהוָ֣ה צִוָּ֗ה לְהָפֵ֞ר אֶת־עֲצַ֤ת אֲחִיתֹ֙פֶל֙ הַטּוֹבָ֔ה לְבַעֲב֗וּר הָבִ֧יא יְהוָ֛ה אֶל־אַבְשָׁל֖וֹם אֶת־הָרָעָֽה׃ס

2 Samuel 17:14: 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:494 of Mova's parse database.

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