2 Samuel 3:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said: 'Am I a dog's head that belongeth to Judah?
Who acts: Abner, I, head · What happens: be, say, belong · To what, where: head, Judah · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 2 Samuel 3:8 · 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 (Abner, I, head), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 wroth | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wroth | cop |
| 3 | Abner | Abner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wroth | nsubj |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 wroth | advmod |
| 5 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 words | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 words | det |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wroth | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bosheth | case |
| 10 | Ish | ish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bosheth | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 bosheth | punct |
| 12 | bosheth | bosheth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 words | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wroth | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 head | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 head | punct |
| 18 | Am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 head | cop |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 head | nsubj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 dog | det |
| 21 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 dog | case |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | ccomp |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 belongeth | nsubj |
| 25 | belongeth | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 head | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Judah | case |
| 27 | Judah | Judah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 belongeth | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 head | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- disagree
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=disagree, indirect=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Abner | then | for the words; wroth property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Abner not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | I | a dog's head | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | belong | present | a dog's head | Judah | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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
וַיִּחַר֩ לְאַבְנֵ֨ר מְאֹ֜ד עַל־דִּבְרֵ֣י אִֽישׁ־בֹּ֗שֶׁתאִֽישׁ־בֹּ֗שֶׁת וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ הֲרֹ֨אשׁ כֶּ֥לֶב אָנֹ֘כִי֮ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לִֽיהוּדָה֒ הַיּ֨וֹם אֶֽעֱשֶׂה־חֶ֜סֶד עִם־בֵּ֣ית ׀ שָׁא֣וּל אָבִ֗יךָ אֶל־אֶחָיו֙ וְאֶל־מֵ֣רֵעֵ֔הוּ וְלֹ֥א הִמְצִיתִ֖ךָ בְּיַד־דָּוִ֑ד וַתִּפְקֹ֥ד עָלַ֛י עֲוֺ֥ן הָאִשָּׁ֖ה הַיּֽוֹם׃
2 Samuel 3:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said: 'Am I a dog's head that belongeth to Judah?
- This day do I show kindness unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, and yet thou chargest me this day with a fault concerning this woman.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2SA:76 of Mova's parse database.
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