2 Samuel 18:4 · JPS 1917
And the king said unto them: 'What seemeth you best I will do.' And the king stood by the gate-side, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.
Who acts: king, I, people · What happens: say, seem, do, stand, go out · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 2 Samuel 18:4 · 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 (king, I, people), 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 | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 seemeth | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 seemeth | punct |
| 9 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 do | obj |
| 10 | seemeth | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | ccomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 seemeth | iobj |
| 12 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 seemeth | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 18 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stood | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stood | nsubj |
| 21 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 side | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 side | det |
| 24 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 side | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 gate | punct |
| 26 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stood | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 went | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 went | cc |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 people | det:predet |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 people | det |
| 31 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 went | nsubj |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stood | conj |
| 33 | out | out | ADV | _ | 32 went | advmod |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 hundreds | case |
| 35 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 went | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 thousands | cc |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 thousands | case |
| 38 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 hundreds | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | unto people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | seem | present | I not said here | you | well property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Attribute | |||
| 3 | do | future | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | stand | past | the king | by the gate side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | ||||
| 5 | go out | past | all people | by hundreds and thousands; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֲלֵיהֶם֙ הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ אֲשֶׁר־יִיטַ֥ב בְּעֵינֵיכֶ֖ם אֶעֱשֶׂ֑ה וַיַּעֲמֹ֤ד הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ אֶל־יַ֣ד הַשַּׁ֔עַר וְכָל־הָעָם֙ יָֽצְא֔וּ לְמֵא֖וֹת וְלַאֲלָפִֽים׃
2 Samuel 18:4: 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:515 of Mova's parse database.
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