2 Samuel 21:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD.

Who acts: famine, David · What happens: be, seek · To what, where: face

This is 2 Samuel 21:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (famine, David), 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 was	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 famine	det
5	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 days	det
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 was	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 David	case
10	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 days	nmod
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 was	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 year	punct
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	obl:unmarked
15	after	after	ADP	_	16 year	case
16	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 year	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 sought	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sought	cc
19	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 sought	nsubj
20	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 was	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 face	det
22	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sought	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 LORD	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 LORD	det
25	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 face	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a famine			there	day; year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seek	past	David	the face of the LORD					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=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

וַיְהִ֣י רָעָב֩ בִּימֵ֨י דָוִ֜ד שָׁלֹ֣שׁ שָׁנִ֗ים שָׁנָה֙ אַחֲרֵ֣י שָׁנָ֔ה וַיְבַקֵּ֥שׁ דָּוִ֖ד אֶת־פְּנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑הס וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֗ה אֶל־שָׁאוּל֙ וְאֶל־בֵּ֣ית הַדָּמִ֔ים עַל־אֲשֶׁר־הֵמִ֖ית אֶת־הַגִּבְעֹנִֽים׃

2 Samuel 21:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

This verse in JPS 1917:

And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD.
And the LORD said: 'It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.'

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2SA:634 of Mova's parse database.

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