2 Samuel 20:17 · JPS 1917

And he came near unto her; and the woman said: 'Art thou Joab?' And he answered: 'I am.' Then she said unto him: 'Hear the words of thy handmaid.' And he answered: 'I do hear.'

Who acts: Joab, woman, thou, Beth, I · What happens: come, say, be, answer, hear, word · To what, where: Joab, words, handmaid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 20:17 · 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, woman, thou, Beth), 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	unto	unto	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Joab	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 Joab	punct
14	Art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Joab	cop
15	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 Joab	nsubj
16	Joab	Joab	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 Joab	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 Joab	punct
19	And	and	CCONJ	_	21 answered	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 answered	nsubj
21	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 am	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 am	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 am	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 answered	ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 am	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 am	punct
28	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 said	advmod
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
31	unto	unto	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	obl
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 Hear	punct
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 Hear	punct
35	Hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 said	ccomp
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 words	det
37	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 Hear	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 handmaid	case
39	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	40 handmaid	nmod:poss
40	handmaid	handmaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 words	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 Hear	punct
42	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 Hear	punct
43	And	and	CCONJ	_	45 answered	cc
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 answered	nsubj
45	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
46	:	:	PUNCT	_	50 hear	punct
47	'	'	PUNCT	_	50 hear	punct
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 hear	nsubj
49	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 hear	aux
50	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 answered	ccomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	50 hear	punct
52	'	'	PUNCT	_	50 hear	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, indirect=0, polarity=none, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Joab			unto Beth; near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	thou	Joab			tree rules
4	answer speech: assert	past	Joab				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	Beth		then	unto Joab	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	hear	infinitive		the words of thy handmaid			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
7	answer speech: assert	past	Joab				tree rules
8	hear	present · do-support	I				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
9	word			thy handmaid			nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

וַיִּקְרַ֣ב אֵלֶ֔יהָ וַתֹּ֧אמֶר הָאִשָּׁ֛ה הַאַתָּ֥ה יוֹאָ֖ב וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אָ֑נִי וַתֹּ֣אמֶר ל֗וֹ שְׁמַע֙ דִּבְרֵ֣י אֲמָתֶ֔ךָ וַיֹּ֖אמֶר שֹׁמֵ֥עַ אָנֹֽכִי׃

2 Samuel 20:17: 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:621 of Mova's parse database.

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