2 Samuel 18:29 · JPS 1917

And the king said: 'Is it well with the young man Absalom?' And Ahimaaz answered: 'When Joab sent the king's servant, and me thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.'

Who acts: king, hand, Ahimaaz, Joab, me, I · What happens: say, be, answer, send, servant, see · To what, where: servant, great tumult · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 18:29 · 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 (king, hand, Ahimaaz, Joab), 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	_	9 well	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 well	punct
7	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 well	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 well	nsubj
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 man	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 well	obl
14	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 man	appos
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 well	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 well	punct
17	And	and	CCONJ	_	19 answered	cc
18	Ahimaaz	Ahimaaz	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 answered	nsubj
19	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 saw	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	36 saw	punct
22	When	when	SCONJ	_	24 sent	mark
23	Joab	Joab	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 sent	nsubj
24	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 saw	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 king	det
26	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 servant	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 king	case
28	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sent	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 servant	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 servant	cc
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 servant	nsubj
32	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	33 servant	nmod:poss
33	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 servant	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 saw	punct
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 saw	nsubj
36	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 answered	ccomp
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 tumult	det
38	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 tumult	amod
39	tumult	tumult	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 saw	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 knew	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 knew	cc
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 knew	nsubj
43	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 saw	conj
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 knew	advmod
45	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	43 knew	ccomp
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 what	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 what	cop
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
49	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: pos
teacher: changed act=ask

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	hand		with the young man; well property	tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	past	Ahimaaz			tree rules
4	send	past	Joab	the king's servant and thy servant		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme
5	servant		me			tree rules
6	see	past	I	a great tumult		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tumult=Stimulus
7	not know	past	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	is a	past	hand			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 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ שָׁל֥וֹם לַנַּ֖עַר לְאַבְשָׁל֑וֹם וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲחִימַ֡עַץ רָאִיתִי֩ הֶהָמ֨וֹן הַגָּד֜וֹל לִ֠שְׁלֹחַ אֶת־עֶ֨בֶד הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ יוֹאָב֙ וְאֶת־עַבְדֶּ֔ךָ וְלֹ֥א יָדַ֖עְתִּי מָֽה׃

2 Samuel 18:29: 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:542 of Mova's parse database.

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