2 Samuel 20:15 · JPS 1917

And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood in the moat; and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

Who acts: people, mound · What happens: come, besiege, cast up, stand, be, batter · To what, where: Amasa, Abel, mound, city, moat, wall

This is 2 Samuel 20:15 · 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 (people, mound), 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 came	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 besieged	cc
5	besieged	besiege	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 besieged	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Abel	case
8	Abel	Abel	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 besieged	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Beth	case
10	Beth	Beth	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Abel	nmod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 maacah	punct
12	maacah	maacah	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Beth	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cast	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cast	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cast	nsubj
16	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 cast	compound:prt
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mound	det
19	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cast	obj
20	against	against	ADP	_	22 city	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 city	det
22	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cast	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stood	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 stood	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stood	nsubj
26	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 moat	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 moat	det
29	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stood	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 battered	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 battered	cc
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 people	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 people	det
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 battered	nsubj
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 Joab	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 Joab	cop
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 Joab	case
38	Joab	Joab	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 people	acl:relcl
39	battered	batter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 wall	det
41	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 battered	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 throw	punct
43	to	to	PART	_	44 throw	mark
44	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 battered	advcl
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 throw	obj
46	down	down	ADP	_	44 throw	compound:prt
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	people				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	besiege	past	people not said here	Amasa	Abel of Beth		tree rules
3	cast up	past	people	a mound	the city		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent mound=Theme against city=Destination
4	stand	past	mound		the moat		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in moat=Location
5	is	past	all people			with Joab	tree rules
6	batter	past	all people	the wall			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Patient
7	throw down	to-infinitive	all people not said here	wall			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

וַיָּבֹ֜אוּ וַיָּצֻ֣רוּ עָלָ֗יו בְּאָבֵ֙לָה֙ בֵּ֣ית הַֽמַּעֲכָ֔האָבֵ֙לָה֙ בֵּ֣ית הַֽמַּעֲכָ֔ה אָבֵ֙לָה֙ בֵּ֣ית הַֽמַּעֲכָ֔ה אָבֵ֙לָה֙ בֵּ֣ית הַֽמַּעֲכָ֔ה וַיִּשְׁפְּכ֤וּ סֹֽלְלָה֙ אֶל־הָעִ֔יר וַֽתַּעֲמֹ֖ד בַּחֵ֑ל וְכָל־הָעָם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶת־יוֹאָ֔ב מַשְׁחִיתִ֖ם לְהַפִּ֥יל הַחוֹמָֽה׃

2 Samuel 20:15: 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:619 of Mova's parse database.

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