2 Samuel 18:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And Absalom chanced to meet the servants of David.
Who acts: Absalom · What happens: chance, meet · To what, where: servants
This is 2 Samuel 18:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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), 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 | _ | 3 chanced | cc |
| 2 | Absalom | Absalom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 chanced | nsubj |
| 3 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 meet | mark |
| 5 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 chanced | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 servants | det |
| 7 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 meet | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 David | case |
| 9 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 servants | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chanced | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chance | past | Absalom | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | Absalom not said here | the servants of David | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Co-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
וַיִּקָּרֵא֙ אַבְשָׁל֔וֹם לִפְנֵ֖י עַבְדֵ֣י דָוִ֑ד וְאַבְשָׁל֞וֹם רֹכֵ֣ב עַל־הַפֶּ֗רֶד וַיָּבֹ֣א הַפֶּ֡רֶד תַּ֣חַת שׂוֹבֶךְ֩ הָאֵלָ֨ה הַגְּדוֹלָ֜ה וַיֶּחֱזַ֧ק רֹאשׁ֣וֹ בָאֵלָ֗ה וַיֻּתַּן֙ בֵּ֤ין הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ וּבֵ֣ין הָאָ֔רֶץ וְהַפֶּ֥רֶד אֲשֶׁר־תַּחְתָּ֖יו עָבָֽר׃
2 Samuel 18:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And Absalom chanced to meet the servants of David.
- And Absalom was riding upon his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great terebinth, and his head caught hold of the terebinth, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went on.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2SA:520 of Mova's parse database.
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