2 Samuel 20:6 · JPS 1917

And David said to Abishai: 'Now will Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom; take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.'

Who acts: David, Sheba, thou, our · What happens: say, do, take, pursue, get, fortify · To what, where: Abishai, more harm, us, servants, fortified cities, Absalom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 20:6 · 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 (David, Sheba, thou, our), 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	_	3 said	cc
2	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Abishai	case
5	Abishai	Abishai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
8	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 do	advmod
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 do	aux
10	Sheba	Sheba	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 do	nsubj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 son	det
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Sheba	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Bichri	case
14	Bichri	Bichri	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 son	nmod
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 do	iobj
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 harm	amod
18	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 do	obj
19	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 did	mark
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 do	advcl
21	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 did	nsubj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 take	punct
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	parataxis
24	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 take	nsubj
25	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 lord	nmod:poss
26	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 servants	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 lord	case
28	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 take	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pursue	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 pursue	cc
31	pursue	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 take	conj
32	after	after	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 pursue	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 get	punct
35	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	37 get	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 get	nsubj
37	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 pursue	advcl
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 get	iobj
39	fortified	fortify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 cities	amod
40	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 get	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 escape	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 escape	cc
43	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 get	conj
44	out	out	ADP	_	47 sight	case
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 sight	case
46	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 sight	nmod:poss
47	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 escape	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
49	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: warn
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=warn

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	David		Abishai			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to abishai=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	do	future	Sheba	more harm	us		now	tree rules
3	take	infinitive	thou	thy lord's servants				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme
4	pursue	infinitive	thou not said here				after Absalom	vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after he=Theme
5	get	infinitive	Sheba	fortified cities	Absalom			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary city=Theme
6	fortify	participle						vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme
7	escape	infinitive	Sheba not said here			our sight		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out sight=Initial_Location
8	sight		our					nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר דָּוִד֙ אֶל־אֲבִישַׁ֔י עַתָּ֗ה יֵ֧רַֽע לָ֛נוּ שֶׁ֥בַע בֶּן־בִּכְרִ֖י מִן־אַבְשָׁל֑וֹם אַ֠תָּה קַ֞ח אֶת־עַבְדֵ֤י אֲדֹנֶ֙יךָ֙ וּרְדֹ֣ף אַחֲרָ֔יו פֶּן־מָ֥צָא ל֛וֹ עָרִ֥ים בְּצֻר֖וֹת וְהִצִּ֥יל עֵינֵֽנוּ׃

2 Samuel 20:6: 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:607 of Mova's parse database.

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