2 Samuel 3:6 · JPS 1917

And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner showed himself strong in the house of Saul.

Who acts: born, war, Abner · What happens: come, pass, be, show · To what, where: David

This is 2 Samuel 3:6 · 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 (born, war, Abner), 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 came	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 was	punct
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 was	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	advcl
10	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 was	nsubj
11	between	between	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 war	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Saul	case
15	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 house	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 house	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 house	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Saul	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 David	case
20	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 house	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 showed	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 showed	mark
23	Abner	Abner	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 showed	nsubj
24	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	csubj
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 showed	obj
26	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 showed	xcomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 house	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 house	det
29	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 strong	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Saul	case
31	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 house	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	born = bear				tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	born = bear not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be	past	war between the house of Saul and the house of David		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	show	past	Abner	David		strong property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient

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

וַיְהִ֗י בִּֽהְיוֹת֙ הַמִּלְחָמָ֔ה בֵּ֚ין בֵּ֣ית שָׁא֔וּל וּבֵ֖ין בֵּ֣ית דָּוִ֑ד וְאַבְנֵ֛ר הָיָ֥ה מִתְחַזֵּ֖ק בְּבֵ֥ית שָׁאֽוּל׃

2 Samuel 3:6: 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:74 of Mova's parse database.

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