2 Samuel 21:7 · JPS 1917

But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

Who acts: king, oath · What happens: spare, be · To what, where: Mephibosheth

This is 2 Samuel 21:7 · 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 (king, oath), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 spared	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spared	nsubj
4	spared	spare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Mephibosheth	Mephibosheth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spared	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 son	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 son	det
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Mephibosheth	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Jonathan	case
10	Jonathan	Jonathan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 son	nmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 son	det
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Jonathan	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Saul	case
14	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 son	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 oath	punct
16	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	21 oath	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	16 because	fixed
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 LORD	det
19	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 oath	nmod:poss
20	'S	's	PART	_	19 LORD	case
21	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spared	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 them	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 them	cop
24	between	between	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 oath	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 David	punct
27	between	between	ADP	_	28 David	case
28	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 oath	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Jonathan	cc
30	Jonathan	Jonathan	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 David	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 son	det
32	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 David	appos
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Saul	case
34	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 son	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spared	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	spare	past	the king	Mephibosheth				because the LORD's oath between David and Jonathan	vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent mephibosheth=Asset
2	is	past	the LORD's oath between David and Jonathan					between Saul	tree rules

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

וַיַּחְמֹ֣ל הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ עַל־מְפִי־בֹ֖שֶׁתמְפִי־בֹ֖שֶׁת בֶּן־יְהוֹנָתָ֣ן בֶּן־שָׁא֑וּל עַל־שְׁבֻעַ֤ת יְהוָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בֵּֽינֹתָ֔ם בֵּ֣ין דָּוִ֔ד וּבֵ֖ין יְהוֹנָתָ֥ן בֶּן־שָׁאֽוּל׃

2 Samuel 21:7: 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:641 of Mova's parse database.

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