2 Samuel 20:19 · JPS 1917

We are of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel; seekest thou to destroy a city and a mother in Israel? why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?'

Who acts: We, thou · What happens: be, seek, destroy, swallow up, inherit · To what, where: Israel, city, inheritance, LORD

This is 2 Samuel 20:19 · 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 (We, thou), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 them	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 them	cop
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 peaceable	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 peaceable	cop
7	peaceable	peaceable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 them	acl:relcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 faithful	cc
9	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 peaceable	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Israel	case
11	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 peaceable	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 seekest	punct
13	seekest	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 them	parataxis
14	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 seekest	nsubj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 destroy	mark
16	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seekest	xcomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 city	det
18	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 destroy	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 mother	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 mother	det
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 city	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 Israel	case
23	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 mother	nmod
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 seekest	punct
25	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	28 swallow	advmod
26	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	28 swallow	aux
27	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 swallow	nsubj
28	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 them	parataxis
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 swallow	compound:prt
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 inheritance	det
31	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 swallow	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 LORD	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 LORD	det
34	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 inheritance	nmod
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 them	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 them	punct

Pragmatics

form: other
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=other, act=assert, indirect=0

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	We			of women = woman	tree rules
2	is	present			Israel	peaceable property	tree rules
3	be						tree rules
4	seek	present	thou				tree rules
5	destroy not said to happen	to-infinitive	thou not said here	a city and a mother in Israel			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient
6	swallow up	future	thou	the inheritance of the LORD			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inheritance=Patient
7	inherit			the LORD			nom inheritance «act 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

אָנֹכִ֕י שְׁלֻמֵ֖י אֱמוּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אַתָּ֣ה מְבַקֵּ֗שׁ לְהָמִ֨ית עִ֤יר וְאֵם֙ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לָ֥מָּה תְבַלַּ֖ע נַחֲלַ֥ת יְהוָֽה׃פ

2 Samuel 20:19: 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:623 of Mova's parse database.

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