2 Samuel 23:21 · JPS 1917

and he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man; and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.

Who acts: Benaiah, Egyptian · What happens: slay, have, go down, pluck · To what, where: Egyptian, spear, hand, man, Benaiah

This is 2 Samuel 23:21 · 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 (Benaiah, Egyptian), 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 slew	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slew	nsubj
3	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Egyptian	det
5	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 slew	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 man	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	goodly	goodly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Egyptian	appos
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Egyptian	det
13	Egyptian	Egyptian	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slew	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 spear	det
16	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 hand	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hand	nmod:poss
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slew	conj
24	down	down	ADV	_	23 went	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 staff	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 staff	det
29	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 plucked	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 plucked	cc
32	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 went	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 spear	det
34	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 plucked	obj
35	out	out	ADP	_	40 hand	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	40 hand	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Egyptian	det
38	Egyptian	Egyptian	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 hand	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 Egyptian	case
40	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 plucked	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 slew	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 slew	cc
43	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 plucked	conj
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 slew	obj
45	with	with	ADP	_	48 spear	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 spear	nmod:poss
47	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 spear	amod
48	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 slew	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slew	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	slay	past	Benaiah	a Egyptian				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egyptian=Patient
2	have	past	the Egyptian	a spear		Benaiah's hand		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Patient
3	go down	past	Benaiah		man		with a staff; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	pluck	past	Benaiah not said here	the spear		the Egyptian's hand		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent spear=Theme out hand=Source
5	slay	past	Benaiah not said here	Benaiah			with Benaiah's own spear	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with spear=Instrument

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

וְהוּא־הִכָּה֩ אֶת־אִ֨ישׁ מִצְרִ֜י אִ֣ישׁ מַרְאֶ֗ה וּבְיַ֤ד הַמִּצְרִי֙ חֲנִ֔ית וַיֵּ֥רֶד אֵלָ֖יו בַּשָּׁ֑בֶט וַיִּגְזֹ֤ל אֶֽת־הַחֲנִית֙ מִיַּ֣ד הַמִּצְרִ֔י וַיַּהַרְגֵ֖הוּ בַּחֲנִיתֽוֹ׃

2 Samuel 23:21: 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:734 of Mova's parse database.

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