2 Samuel 20:9 · JPS 1917
And Joab said to Amasa: 'Is it well with thee, my brother?' And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
Who acts: Joab, girdle · What happens: say, be, take, kiss · To what, where: Amasa, Joab · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 2 Samuel 20:9 · 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 (Joab, girdle), 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 | Joab | Joab | 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 Amasa | case |
| 5 | Amasa | Amasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 well | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 well | punct |
| 8 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 well | cop |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 well | nsubj |
| 10 | well | well | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 thee | case |
| 12 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 well | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brother | punct |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 well | vocative |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 well | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 well | punct |
| 18 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 19 | Joab | Joab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 took | nsubj |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 21 | Amasa | Amasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 beard | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 beard | det |
| 24 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 hand | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hand | nmod:poss |
| 27 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 hand | amod |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 kiss | mark |
| 30 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 took | advcl |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 kiss | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed indirect=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Joab | Amasa | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to amasa=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | girdle | with thee; my brother vocative; well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Joab | Amasa | by the beard; with Joab's right hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument amasa=Destination | |||
| 4 | kiss | to-infinitive | Joab not said here | Joab | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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 יוֹאָב֙ לַעֲמָשָׂ֔א הֲשָׁל֥וֹם אַתָּ֖ה אָחִ֑י וַתֹּ֜חֶז יַד־יְמִ֥ין יוֹאָ֛ב בִּזְקַ֥ן עֲמָשָׂ֖א לִנְשָׁק־לֽוֹ׃
2 Samuel 20:9: 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:611 of Mova's parse database.
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