2 Samuel 18:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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.

Who acts: Absalom, mule, head · What happens: ride, go, catch, take up, be, go on · To what, where: thick boughs, hold, Absalom, terebinth

This is 2 Samuel 18:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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, mule, head), 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 riding	cc
2	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 riding	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 riding	aux
4	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 mule	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mule	nmod:poss
7	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 riding	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mule	det
11	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 riding	conj
13	under	under	ADP	_	16 boughs	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boughs	det
15	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boughs	amod
16	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 went	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 terebinth	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 terebinth	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 terebinth	amod
20	terebinth	terebinth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 boughs	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 caught	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 caught	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 caught	nsubj
25	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 riding	conj
26	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 caught	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 terebinth	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 terebinth	det
29	terebinth	terebinth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hold	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 taken	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 taken	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 taken	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 taken	aux:pass
34	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 caught	conj
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 taken	compound:prt
36	between	between	ADP	_	38 heaven	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 heaven	det
38	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 taken	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 earth	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 earth	det
41	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 heaven	conj
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 went	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 went	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 mule	det
45	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 went	nsubj
46	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 him	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 him	cop
48	under	under	ADP	_	49 him	case
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 mule	acl:relcl
50	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 riding	conj
51	on	on	ADV	_	50 went	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 riding	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride	past · progressive	Absalom			upon Absalom's mule	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	the mule		the thick boughs of a great terebinth		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under bough=Location
3	catch	past	Absalom's head	hold of the terebinth			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
4	take up	past · passive		Absalom		between the heaven and the earth	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
5	is	past	the mule			under Absalom	tree rules
6	go on	past	the mule				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	hold			the terebinth			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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:521 of Mova's parse database.

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