2 Samuel 19:36 · JPS 1917

I am this day fourscore years old; can I discern between good and bad? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?

Who acts: I, servant, voice · What happens: be, discern, taste, eat, drink, hear · To what, where: voice, men, women, burden

This is 2 Samuel 19:36 · 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 (I, servant, voice), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 old	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 old	cop
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 old	obl:unmarked
5	fourscore	fourscore	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 old	obl:unmarked
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 discern	punct
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 discern	aux
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 discern	nsubj
11	discern	discern	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 old	parataxis
12	between	between	ADP	_	13 good	case
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 discern	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bad	cc
15	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 good	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 discern	punct
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 taste	aux
18	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 servant	nmod:poss
19	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taste	nsubj
20	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 old	parataxis
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 eat	obj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 eat	nsubj
23	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 taste	ccomp
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 drink	cc
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 drink	obj
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 drink	nsubj
27	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 eat	conj
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 taste	punct
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 hear	aux
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 hear	nsubj
31	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 old	parataxis
32	any	any	ADV	_	33 more	advmod
33	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 hear	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 voice	det
35	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hear	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 singing	mark
37	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 voice	acl
38	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 singing	obj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 singing	cc
40	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 singing	conj
41	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 singing	obj
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 old	punct
43	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	51 burden	advmod
44	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	51 burden	advmod
45	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 burden	aux
46	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	47 servant	nmod:poss
47	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 burden	nsubj
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 burden	cop
49	yet	yet	ADV	_	51 burden	advmod
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 burden	det
51	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 old	parataxis
52	unto	unto	ADP	_	54 lord	case
53	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 lord	nmod:poss
54	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 burden	nmod
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 king	det
56	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 lord	appos
57	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 old	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=1

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		day; year	old property	tree rules
2	discern	can	I			between good	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	taste	can	thy servant				vn see-30.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	eat	present	I				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
5	drink	present	I				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
6	hear	can	I	the voice			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
7	sing speech: express	gerund	the voice not said here	men			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme
8	sing speech: express	gerund	the voice not said here	women			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location woman=Theme
9	is a	should	thy servant	a burden	then; yet	unto my lord; wherefore property	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

בֶּן־שְׁמֹנִ֣ים שָׁנָה֩ אָנֹכִ֨י הַיּ֜וֹם הַאֵדַ֣ע ׀ בֵּין־ט֣וֹב לְרָ֗ע אִם־יִטְעַ֤ם עַבְדְּךָ֙ אֶת־אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֹכַל֙ וְאֶת־אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶשְׁתֶּ֔ה אִם־אֶשְׁמַ֣ע ע֔וֹד בְּק֖וֹל שָׁרִ֣ים וְשָׁר֑וֹת וְלָמָּה֩ יִֽהְיֶ֨ה עַבְדְּךָ֥ עוֹד֙ לְמַשָּׂ֔א אֶל־אֲדֹנִ֖י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

2 Samuel 19:36: 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:591 of Mova's parse database.

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