2 Samuel 17:18 · JPS 1917

But a lad saw them, and told Absalom; and they went both of them away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down thither.

Who acts: lad, Jonathan, man · What happens: see, tell, go, come, have, go down · To what, where: Jonathan, Absalom, house, well, court · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 17:18 · 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 (lad, Jonathan, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 saw	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lad	det
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
9	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 told	iobj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
14	both	both	PRON	PronType=Tot	13 went	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 both	nmod
17	away	away	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
18	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 house	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 house	det
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 man	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 house	nmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 Bahurim	case
29	Bahurim	Bahurim	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 house	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 had	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 man	acl:relcl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 well	det
34	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 had	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 court	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 court	nmod:poss
37	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 had	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 went	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 went	cc
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 went	nsubj
41	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
42	down	down	ADV	_	41 went	advmod
43	thither	thither	ADV	_	41 went	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	a lad	Jonathan				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	a lad not said here		Absalom			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent absalom=Recipient
3	go	past	Jonathan				away, quickly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	Jonathan not said here			the house of a man in Bahurim		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
5	have	past	a man	a well		lad's court		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent well=Patient
6	go down	past	Jonathan				down, thither property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

וַיַּ֤רְא אֹתָם֙ נַ֔עַר וַיַּגֵּ֖ד לְאַבְשָׁלֹ֑ם וַיֵּלְכוּ֩ שְׁנֵיהֶ֨ם מְהֵרָ֜ה וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ ׀ אֶל־בֵּֽית־אִ֣ישׁ בְּבַחוּרִ֗ים וְל֥וֹ בְאֵ֛ר בַּחֲצֵר֖וֹ וַיֵּ֥רְדוּ שָֽׁם׃

2 Samuel 17:18: 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:498 of Mova's parse database.

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