2 Samuel 21:4 · JPS 1917

And the Gibeonites said unto him: 'It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.' And he said: 'What say ye that I should do for you?'

Who acts: Gibeonites, It, us, LORD, ye, I · What happens: say, be, do · To what, where: matter, house, Israel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 21:4 · 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 (Gibeonites, It, us, LORD), 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	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Gibeonites	det
3	Gibeonites	gibeonite	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	unto	unto	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 matter	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 matter	punct
9	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 matter	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 matter	cop
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 matter	det
12	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 silver	case
14	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 matter	nmod
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 gold	cc
16	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 silver	conj
17	between	between	ADP	_	18 us	case
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 matter	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Saul	cc
20	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 us	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 house	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 house	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 house	nmod:poss
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 us	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 put	punct
26	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	32 put	cc
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 put	cop
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 put	expl
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 put	mark
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 put	nsubj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 put	mark
32	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 matter	csubj
33	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	34 man	det
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 put	obj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 death	case
36	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 put	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 Israel	case
38	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 put	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
41	And	and	CCONJ	_	43 said	cc
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 said	nsubj
43	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
44	:	:	PUNCT	_	47 say	punct
45	'	'	PUNCT	_	47 say	punct
46	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	47 say	obj
47	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 said	ccomp
48	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	47 say	nsubj
49	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 do	obj
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 do	nsubj
51	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 do	aux
52	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 What	acl:relcl
53	for	for	ADP	_	54 you	case
54	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 do	obl
55	?	?	PUNCT	_	47 say	punct
56	'	'	PUNCT	_	47 say	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: disagree
voice: character
polarity: neg
indirect: yes
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Gibeonites			unto LORD	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	It	no matter		of silver or gold; between us	tree rules
3	is	present	us	house	Israel	to death; put property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	LORD				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	say speech: assert	present	ye				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
6	do	should	I			for you	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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

וַיֹּ֧אמְרוּ ל֣וֹ הַגִּבְעֹנִ֗ים אֵֽין־לָ֜נוּ כֶּ֤סֶף וְזָהָב֙ עִם־שָׁא֣וּל וְעִם־בֵּית֔וֹ וְאֵֽין־לָ֥נוּ אִ֖ישׁ לְהָמִ֣ית בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיֹּ֛אמֶר מָֽה־אַתֶּ֥ם אֹמְרִ֖ים אֶעֱשֶׂ֥ה לָכֶֽם׃

2 Samuel 21:4: 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:638 of Mova's parse database.

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