2 Samuel 18:14 · JPS 1917

Then said Joab: 'I may not tarry thus with thee.' And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the terebinth.

Who acts: Joab, I · What happens: say, not tarry, take, thrust, be · To what, where: three darts, hand, darts, heart, midst · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 18:14 · 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 (Joab, I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Joab	Joab	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 tarry	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 tarry	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tarry	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 tarry	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 tarry	advmod
9	tarry	tarry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
10	thus	thus	ADV	_	9 tarry	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 thee	case
12	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 tarry	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tarry	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 tarry	punct
15	And	and	CCONJ	_	17 took	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 took	nsubj
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 darts	nummod
19	darts	dart	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 took	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 hand	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hand	nmod:poss
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 thrust	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 thrust	cc
25	thrust	thrust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 took	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 thrust	obj
27	through	through	ADP	_	29 heart	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 heart	det
29	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 thrust	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Absalom	case
31	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 heart	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 alive	punct
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	37 alive	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 alive	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 alive	cop
36	yet	yet	ADV	_	37 alive	advmod
37	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 thrust	advcl
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 midst	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 midst	det
40	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 alive	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 terebinth	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 terebinth	det
43	terebinth	terebinth	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 midst	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Joab			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not tarry	may	I				with thee; thus property	vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	take	past	Joab	three darts	Joab's hand			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dart=Value in hand=Location
4	thrust	past	Joab not said here	darts = dart	the heart of Absalom			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	is	past	Joab		the midst of the terebinth	yet	alive property	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

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יוֹאָ֔ב לֹא־כֵ֖ן אֹחִ֣ילָה לְפָנֶ֑יךָ וַיִּקַּח֩ שְׁלֹשָׁ֨ה שְׁבָטִ֜ים בְּכַפּ֗וֹ וַיִּתְקָעֵם֙ בְּלֵ֣ב אַבְשָׁל֔וֹם עוֹדֶ֥נּוּ חַ֖י בְּלֵ֥ב הָאֵלָֽה׃

2 Samuel 18:14: 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:526 of Mova's parse database.

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