2 Samuel 3:1 · JPS 1917

Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David; and David waxed stronger and stronger, but the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.

Who acts: long war, David, house · What happens: be, wax

This is 2 Samuel 3:1 · 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 (long war, David, house), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 was	advmod
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	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 war	amod
5	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	between	between	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 war	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Saul	case
10	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 house	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 house	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Saul	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 David	case
15	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 house	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 waxed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 waxed	cc
18	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 waxed	nsubj
19	waxed	wax	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 was	conj
20	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 waxed	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stronger	cc
22	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 stronger	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 waxed	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 waxed	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 house	det
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 waxed	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Saul	case
28	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 house	nmod
29	waxed	wax	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 waxed	conj
30	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 waxed	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 weaker	cc
32	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 weaker	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	long war between the house of Saul and the house of David	there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wax	past	David			strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wax	past	the house of Saul			weak property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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

וַתְּהִ֤י הַמִּלְחָמָה֙ אֲרֻכָּ֔ה בֵּ֚ין בֵּ֣ית שָׁא֔וּל וּבֵ֖ין בֵּ֣ית דָּוִ֑ד וְדָוִד֙ הֹלֵ֣ךְ וְחָזֵ֔ק וּבֵ֥ית שָׁא֖וּל הֹלְכִ֥ים וְדַלִּֽים׃ס

2 Samuel 3:1: 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:68 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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