2 Samuel 18:25 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

And the king said: 'If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth.' And he came apace, and drew near.

Who acts: king, tidings · What happens: say, be, come, draw · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 18:25 · 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 (king, tidings), 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 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 is	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 is	punct
7	If	if	SCONJ	_	10 alone	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 alone	nsubj
9	be	be	AUX	Mood=Sub VerbForm=Fin	10 alone	cop
10	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 is	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 alone	punct
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 is	expl
13	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
14	tidings	tiding	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 is	nsubj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 mouth	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mouth	nmod:poss
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tidings	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
20	And	and	CCONJ	_	22 came	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
23	apace	apace	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 drew	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 drew	cc
26	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 came	conj
27	near	near	ADV	_	26 drew	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	king		alone property	tree rules
3	does	present	tidings in king's mouth	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	king		apace property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	draw	past	king not said here		near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

וַיִּקְרָ֤א הַצֹּפֶה֙ וַיַּגֵּ֣ד לַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ אִם־לְבַדּ֖וֹ בְּשׂוֹרָ֣ה בְּפִ֑יו וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ הָל֖וֹךְ וְקָרֵֽב׃

2 Samuel 18:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

This verse in JPS 1917:

And the watchman cried, and told the king.
And the king said: 'If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth.' And he came apace, and drew near.

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2SA:538 of Mova's parse database.

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