2 Samuel 3:11 · JPS 1917
And he could not answer Abner another word, because he feared him.
Who acts: David · What happens: not answer, fear · To what, where: word, Abner
This is 2 Samuel 3:11 · 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 (David), 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 | _ | 5 answer | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 answer | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 answer | advmod |
| 5 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | Abner | Abner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answer | iobj |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 word | det |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answer | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 feared | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 feared | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 feared | nsubj |
| 12 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 feared | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not answer speech: assert | could | David | another word | Abner | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent abner=Theme word=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | fear | past | David | Abner | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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
וְלֹֽא־יָכֹ֣ל ע֔וֹד לְהָשִׁ֥יב אֶת־אַבְנֵ֖ר דָּבָ֑ר מִיִּרְאָת֖וֹ אֹתֽוֹ׃ס
2 Samuel 3:11: 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:80 of Mova's parse database.
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