2 Samuel 19:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Now, therefore, why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?'
Who acts: ye, word · What happens: not speak, bring back · To what, where: word, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 2 Samuel 19:11 · 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 (ye, word), 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 | 6 speak | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 6 speak | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 therefore | punct |
| 5 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 speak | advmod |
| 6 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 speak | nsubj |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 speak | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 word | det |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 speak | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bringing | mark |
| 12 | bringing | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 word | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bringing | obj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 bringing | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 speak | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other | present | ye | a word | now | therefore property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | bring back | gerund | a word not said here | the king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument king=Destination |
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
וְאַבְשָׁלוֹם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר מָשַׁ֣חְנוּ עָלֵ֔ינוּ מֵ֖ת בַּמִּלְחָמָ֑ה וְעַתָּ֗ה לָמָ֥ה אַתֶּ֛ם מַחֲרִשִׁ֖ים לְהָשִׁ֥יב אֶת־הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס
2 Samuel 19:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle.
- Now, therefore, why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2SA:560 of Mova's parse database.
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