2 Samuel 21:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him.
Who acts: Abishai · What happens: succour, smote, kill · To what, where: David, Philistine
This is 2 Samuel 21:17 · 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 (Abishai), 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 | _ | 7 succoured | cc |
| 2 | Abishai | Abishai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 succoured | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Abishai | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Zeruiah | case |
| 6 | Zeruiah | Zeruiah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod |
| 7 | succoured | succour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 succoured | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 smote | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 smote | cc |
| 11 | smote | smote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 succoured | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Philistine | det |
| 13 | Philistine | philistine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 smote | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 killed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 killed | cc |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 succoured | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 killed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 succoured | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succour | past | Abishai | David | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | smote | past | Abishai not said here | the Philistine | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | Abishai not said here | David | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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
וַיַּֽעֲזָר־לוֹ֙ אֲבִישַׁ֣י בֶּן־צְרוּיָ֔ה וַיַּ֥ךְ אֶת־הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֖י וַיְמִיתֵ֑הוּ אָ֣ז נִשְׁבְּעוּ֩ אַנְשֵׁי־דָוִ֨ד ל֜וֹ לֵאמֹ֗ר לֹא־תֵצֵ֨א ע֤וֹד אִתָּ֙נוּ֙ לַמִּלְחָמָ֔ה וְלֹ֥א תְכַבֶּ֖ה אֶת־נֵ֥ר יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃פ
2 Samuel 21:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him.
- Then the men of David swore unto him, saying: 'Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the lamp of Israel.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2SA:652 of Mova's parse database.
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