2 Samuel 3:17 · JPS 1917

And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying: 'In times past ye sought for David to be king over you;

Who acts: Abner, ye, David · What happens: have, say, seek, be · To what, where: communication, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 3:17 · 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 (Abner, ye, 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	_	3 had	cc
2	Abner	Abner	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	communication	communication	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 elders	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 elders	det
7	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 communication	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Israel	case
9	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 elders	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saying	punct
11	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 had	advcl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 sought	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 sought	punct
14	In	in	ADP	_	15 times	case
15	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sought	obl
16	past	past	ADV	_	15 times	advmod
17	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 sought	nsubj
18	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saying	ccomp
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 king	mark
20	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 king	nsubj
21	to	to	PART	_	23 king	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 king	cop
23	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sought	xcomp
24	over	over	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 king	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 sought	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Abner	communication		with the elders of Israel	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent communication=Patient
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Abner not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	seek	past	ye		time		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	David	king		over you	tree rules

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

וּדְבַר־אַבְנֵ֣ר הָיָ֔ה עִם־זִקְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר גַּם־תְּמוֹל֙ גַּם־שִׁלְשֹׁ֔ם הֱיִיתֶ֞ם מְבַקְשִׁ֧ים אֶת־דָּוִ֛ד לְמֶ֖לֶךְ עֲלֵיכֶֽם׃

2 Samuel 3:17: 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:87 of Mova's parse database.

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