2 Samuel 3:27 · JPS 1917

And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there in the groin, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

Who acts: Joab · What happens: return, take, speak, smote, die · To what, where: Abner, Hebron, midst, groin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 3:27 · 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 (Joab), 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	_	10 took	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 returned	mark
3	Abner	Abner	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 returned	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 returned	aux:pass
5	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 took	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Hebron	case
7	Hebron	Hebron	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 returned	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 returned	punct
9	Joab	Joab	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	obj
12	aside	aside	ADV	_	10 took	advmod
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 midst	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 midst	det
15	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 gate	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gate	det
18	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 midst	nmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 speak	mark
20	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 took	advcl
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 speak	obl
23	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	20 speak	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 smote	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 smote	cc
26	smote	smote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 smote	obj
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 smote	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 groin	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 groin	det
31	groin	groin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 smote	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 died	punct
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 died	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 died	nsubj
35	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 smote	advcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 blood	punct
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 blood	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 blood	det
39	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 died	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 Asahel	case
41	Asahel	Asahel	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 blood	nmod
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 brother	nmod:poss
43	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 Asahel	appos
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	past · passive		Abner	Hebron			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to hebron=Destination
2	take	past	Joab	Abner		the midst of the gate	aside property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into midst=Destination
3	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	Joab not said here				with Abner; quietly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent
4	smote	past	Joab not said here	Abner		the groin; there		tree rules
5	die	past	Joab				for the blood of Asahel	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for blood=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

וַיָּ֤שָׁב אַבְנֵר֙ חֶבְר֔וֹן וַיַּטֵּ֤הוּ יוֹאָב֙ אֶל־תּ֣וֹךְ הַשַּׁ֔עַר לְדַבֵּ֥ר אִתּ֖וֹ בַּשֶּׁ֑לִי וַיַּכֵּ֤הוּ שָׁם֙ הַחֹ֔מֶשׁ וַיָּ֕מָת בְּדַ֖ם עֲשָׂה־אֵ֥לעֲשָׂה־אֵ֥ל אָחִֽיו׃

2 Samuel 3:27: 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:98 of Mova's parse database.

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