2 Samuel 2:20 · JPS 1917

Then Abner looked behind him, and said: 'Is it thou, Asahel?' And he answered: 'It is I.'

Who acts: Abner, going · What happens: look, say, be, answer · To what, where: thou, I. · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 2:20 · 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 (Abner, going), 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	3 looked	advmod
2	Abner	Abner	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 thou	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 thou	punct
11	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 thou	cop
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thou	nsubj
13	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Asahel	punct
15	Asahel	Asahel	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 thou	vocative
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 thou	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 thou	punct
18	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 answered	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 answered	nsubj
20	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 I.	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 I.	punct
23	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 I.	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 I.	cop
25	I.	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 answered	ccomp
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 I.	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=ask, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	Abner		then	behind Asahel	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind he=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Abner not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	going	thou		Asahel vocative	tree rules
4	answer speech: assert	past	Abner				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	going	I.			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

וַיִּ֤פֶן אַבְנֵר֙ אַֽחֲרָ֔יו וַיֹּ֕אמֶר הַאַתָּ֥ה זֶ֖ה עֲשָׂהאֵ֑ל וַיֹּ֖אמֶר אָנֹֽכִי׃

2 Samuel 2:20: 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:54 of Mova's parse database.

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