2 Samuel 2:18 · JPS 1917

And the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel; and Asahel was as light of foot as one of the roes that are in the field.

Who acts: three sons, Asahel, roes · What happens: be · To what, where: field

This is 2 Samuel 2:18 · 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 (three sons, Asahel, roes), 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	_	8 there	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sons	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sons	nummod
4	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 there	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Zeruiah	case
6	Zeruiah	Zeruiah	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sons	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 there	cop
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Joab	punct
10	Joab	Joab	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sons	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Abishai	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Abishai	cc
13	Abishai	Abishai	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sons	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Asahel	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Asahel	cc
16	Asahel	Asahel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sons	appos
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 light	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 light	cc
19	Asahel	Asahel	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 light	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 light	cop
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 light	advmod
22	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 there	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 foot	case
24	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 light	obl
25	as	as	ADP	_	26 one	case
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing NumType=Card	22 light	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 roes	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 roes	det
29	roes	roe	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 one	nmod
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 field	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 field	cop
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 field	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 field	det
34	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 roes	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 there	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the three sons of Zeruiah		there property	tree rules
2	is	past	Asahel		of foot; as one of the roes; light property	tree rules
3	is	present	the roes	the field		tree rules

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

וַיִּֽהְיוּ־שָׁ֗ם שְׁלֹשָׁה֙ בְּנֵ֣י צְרוּיָ֔ה יוֹאָ֥ב וַאֲבִישַׁ֖י וַעֲשָׂהאֵ֑ל וַעֲשָׂהאֵל֙ קַ֣ל בְּרַגְלָ֔יו כְּאַחַ֥ד הַצְּבָיִ֖ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר בַּשָּׂדֶֽה׃

2 Samuel 2:18: 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:52 of Mova's parse database.

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