2 Samuel 18:8 · JPS 1917

For the battle was there spread over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

Who acts: forest, sword · What happens: spread, devour · To what, where: battle, face, more people

This is 2 Samuel 18:8 · 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 (forest, sword), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	6 spread	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 battle	det
3	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spread	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spread	aux:pass
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 spread	expl
6	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 face	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 face	det
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spread	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 country	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 country	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 country	det
13	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 face	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 devoured	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 devoured	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 devoured	nsubj
18	devoured	devour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spread	conj
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 people	amod
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 devoured	obj
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 day	det
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 devoured	obl:unmarked
23	than	than	SCONJ	_	26 devoured	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sword	det
25	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 devoured	nsubj
26	devoured	devour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 devoured	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spread	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	spread	past · passive		the battle	the face of all country; there		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over face=Destination
2	devour	past	the forest	more people		day	vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
3	devour	past	the sword				vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: 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

וַתְּהִי־שָׁ֧ם הַמִּלְחָמָ֛ה נָפֹ֖צֶתעַל־פְּנֵ֣י כָל־הָאָ֑רֶץ וַיֶּ֤רֶב הַיַּ֙עַר֙ לֶאֱכֹ֣ל בָּעָ֔ם מֵאֲשֶׁ֥ר אָכְלָ֛ה הַחֶ֖רֶב בַּיּ֥וֹם הַהֽוּא׃

2 Samuel 18:8: 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:519 of Mova's parse database.

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