2 Samuel 18:24 · JPS 1917

Now David sat between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.

Who acts: David, watchman, man · What happens: sit, go up, lift up, look, run · To what, where: two gates, eyes, man

This is 2 Samuel 18:24 · 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 (David, watchman, man), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
2	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	between	between	ADP	_	7 gates	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gates	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 gates	nummod
7	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sat	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 watchman	det
11	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
13	up	up	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 roof	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 roof	det
16	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 gate	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gate	det
19	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 roof	nmod
20	unto	unto	ADP	_	22 wall	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wall	det
22	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 roof	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lifted	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 lifted	cc
25	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 lifted	compound:prt
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 eyes	nmod:poss
28	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lifted	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 looked	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 looked	cc
31	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 behold	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 looked	cc
34	behold	behold	INTJ	_	31 looked	discourse
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 man	det
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 looked	obj
37	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 man	acl
38	alone	alone	ADV	_	37 running	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	David		the two gates	now		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between gate=Location
2	go up	past	the watchman				to the roof of the gate unto the wall	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	lift up	past	the watchman not said here	Joab's eyes				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
4	look	past	the watchman not said here	a man				vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Attribute
5	run	gerund	a man not said here				alone property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

וְדָוִ֥ד יוֹשֵׁ֖ב בֵּין־שְׁנֵ֣י הַשְּׁעָרִ֑ים וַיֵּ֨לֶךְ הַצֹּפֶ֜ה אֶל־גַּ֤ג הַשַּׁ֙עַר֙ אֶל־הַ֣חוֹמָ֔ה וַיִּשָּׂ֤א אֶת־עֵינָיו֙ וַיַּ֔רְא וְהִנֵּה־אִ֖ישׁ רָ֥ץ לְבַדּֽוֹ׃

2 Samuel 18:24: 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:536 of Mova's parse database.

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