2 Samuel 20:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 4
And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab.
Who acts: women · What happens: cut off, throw out · To what, where: head, hand, Joab
This is 2 Samuel 20:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 4 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 (women), 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 cut | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 cut | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 head | det |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Sheba | case |
| 8 | Sheba | Sheba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 head | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 son | det |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Sheba | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Bichri | case |
| 12 | Bichri | Bichri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 son | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 threw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 threw | cc |
| 15 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 threw | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 threw | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Joab | case |
| 19 | Joab | Joab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 threw | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
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- act
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- voice
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- polarity
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | past | women = woman | the head of Sheba | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | throw out | past | women = woman not said here | hand | Joab | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme to joab=Destination |
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
וַתָּבוֹא֩ הָאִשָּׁ֨ה אֶל־כָּל־הָעָ֜ם בְּחָכְמָתָ֗הּ וַֽיִּכְרְת֞וּ אֶת־רֹ֨אשׁ שֶׁ֤בַע בֶּן־בִּכְרִי֙ וַיַּשְׁלִ֣כוּ אֶל־יוֹאָ֔ב וַיִּתְקַע֙ בַּשּׁוֹפָ֔ר וַיָּפֻ֥צוּ מֵֽעַל־הָעִ֖יר אִ֣ישׁ לְאֹהָלָ֑יו וְיוֹאָ֛ב שָׁ֥ב יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם אֶל־הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס
2 Samuel 20:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom.
- And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab.
- And he blew the horn, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent.
- And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2SA:627 of Mova's parse database.
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