2 Samuel 21:12 · JPS 1917
And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the broad place of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines slew Saul in Gilboa;
Who acts: David, men, Philistines · What happens: go, take, steal, hang, slay · To what, where: bones, Saul, broad place, Gilboa
This is 2 Samuel 21:12 · 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 (David, men, Philistines), 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 went | cc |
| 2 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 took | cc |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bones | det |
| 7 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Saul | case |
| 9 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bones | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bones | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bones | det |
| 12 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bones | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Jonathan | case |
| 14 | Jonathan | Jonathan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bones | nmod |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Jonathan | appos |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 men | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 men | det |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 gilead | case |
| 21 | Jabesh | Jabesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 gilead | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 gilead | punct |
| 23 | gilead | gilead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 men | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stolen | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 stolen | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 stolen | aux |
| 27 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 men | acl:relcl |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 stolen | obj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 place | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 place | det |
| 31 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 place | amod |
| 32 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stolen | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Beth | case |
| 34 | Beth | Beth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 place | nmod |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 shan | punct |
| 36 | shan | shan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Beth | flat |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 hanged | punct |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 42 hanged | advmod |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Philistines | det |
| 40 | Philistines | philistine | PROPN | Number=Plur | 42 hanged | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 hanged | aux |
| 42 | hanged | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 place | acl:relcl |
| 43 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 hanged | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 day | punct |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 day | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 day | det |
| 47 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 hanged | obl |
| 48 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 51 slew | mark |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 Philistines | det |
| 50 | Philistines | philistine | PROPN | Number=Plur | 51 slew | nsubj |
| 51 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 day | acl:relcl |
| 52 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 slew | obj |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 Gilboa | case |
| 54 | Gilboa | Gilboa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 slew | obl |
| 55 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | David | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | David not said here | the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan | from the men of Jabesh gilead | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bone=Theme from man=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | steal | past · perfect | the men of Jabesh gilead | Saul | the broad place of Beth | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from place=Source | |||
| 4 | hang | past · perfect | the Philistines | Saul | day | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 5 | slay | past | the Philistines | Saul | Gilboa | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saul=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
וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ דָּוִ֗ד וַיִּקַּ֞ח אֶת־עַצְמ֤וֹת שָׁאוּל֙ וְאֶת־עַצְמוֹת֙ יְהוֹנָתָ֣ן בְּנ֔וֹ מֵאֵ֕ת בַּעֲלֵ֖י יָבֵ֣ישׁ גִּלְעָ֑ד יָבֵ֣ישׁ גִּלְעָ֑ד אֲשֶׁר֩ גָּנְב֨וּ אֹתָ֜ם מֵרְחֹ֣ב בֵּֽית־שַׁ֗ןבֵּֽית־שַׁ֗ן אֲשֶׁ֨ר תְּלָא֥וּם שָׁ֙מָּה֙ פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים בְּי֨וֹם הַכּ֧וֹת פְּלִשְׁתִּ֛ים אֶת־שָׁא֖וּל בַּגִּלְבֹּֽעַ׃
2 Samuel 21:12: 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:646 of Mova's parse database.
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