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title: 2 Samuel 12:5 — And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said t… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan: 'As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this deserveth to die; Who acts: David, LORD, man. 2 Samuel 12:5 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 12:5 שְׁמוּאֵל ב

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**Who acts:** David, LORD, man · **What happens:** kindle, say, live, do, deserve, die · **To what, where:** anger, Nathan, this · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse

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This is 2 Samuel 12:5 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — David, LORD, man — and what happens in the verse to anger, Nathan, this, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 24 chapters of 2 Samuel on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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וַיִּֽחַר־אַ֥ף דָּוִ֛ד בָּאִ֖ישׁ מְאֹ֑ד וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־נָתָ֔ן חַי־יְהוָ֕ה כִּ֣י בֶן־מָ֔וֶת הָאִ֖ישׁ הָעֹשֶׂ֥ה זֹֽאת׃

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[And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan: 'As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this deserveth to die;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.303/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:2SA:268
# text = וַיִּֽחַר־אַ֥ף דָּוִ֛ד בָּאִ֖ישׁ מְאֹ֑ד וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־נָתָ֔ן חַי־יְהוָ֕ה כִּ֣י בֶן־מָ֔וֶת הָאִ֖ישׁ הָעֹשֶׂ֥ה זֹֽאת׃
# verse = 2SA.12.5
1-2	וַיִּֽחַר־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=2SA_12:5!1|MId=o100120050011|Strong=2050b
2	יִּֽחַר־	חָרָה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=it.burned|Ref=2SA_12:5!1|MId=o100120050012|Strong=2734|Frame=A0:100120050021;|Type=wayyiqtol
3	אַ֥ף	אַף	NOUN	_	_	2	nsubj	_	Gloss=the.anger|Ref=2SA_12:5!2|MId=o100120050021|Strong=0639|Type=affirmation
4	דָּוִ֛ד	דָּוִד	PROPN	_	_	3	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.David|Ref=2SA_12:5!3|MId=o100120050031|Strong=1732
5-7	בָּאִ֖ישׁ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
5	בָּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	Gloss=on|Ref=2SA_12:5!4|MId=o100120050041|Strong=0871a
6	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	7	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=2SA_12:5!4|MId=o100120050041ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
7	אִ֖ישׁ	אִישׁ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Gloss=man|Ref=2SA_12:5!4|MId=o100120050042|Strong=0376
8	מְאֹ֑ד	מְאֹד	ADV	_	_	2	advmod	_	Gloss=exceedingly|Ref=2SA_12:5!5|MId=o100120050051|Strong=3966
9-10	וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
9	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	10	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=2SA_12:5!6|MId=o100120050061|Strong=2050b
10	יֹּ֙אמֶר֙	אָמַר	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=he.said|Ref=2SA_12:5!6|MId=o100120050062|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:100120050031;|Type=wayyiqtol
11	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	_	12	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=2SA_12:5!7|MId=o100120050071|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No
12	נָתָ֔ן	נָתָן	PROPN	_	_	10	obl	_	Gloss=Nathan|Ref=2SA_12:5!8|MId=o100120050081|Strong=5416
13	חַי־	חַי	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	Gloss=[by].the.life|Ref=2SA_12:5!9|MId=o100120050091|Strong=2416|Type=adjective|SpaceAfter=No
14	יְהוָ֕ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	13	nsubj	_	Gloss=of.Yahweh|Ref=2SA_12:5!10|MId=o100120050101|Strong=3068
15	כִּ֣י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	16	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=2SA_12:5!11|MId=o100120050111|Strong=3588
16	בֶן־	בֵּן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	Gloss=[is].a.son|Ref=2SA_12:5!12|MId=o100120050121|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No
17	מָ֔וֶת	מָוֶת	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	16	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.death|Ref=2SA_12:5!13|MId=o100120050131|Strong=4194
18-19	הָאִ֖ישׁ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
18	הָ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	19	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=2SA_12:5!14|MId=o100120050141|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
19	אִ֖ישׁ	אִישׁ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	Gloss=man|Ref=2SA_12:5!14|MId=o100120050142|Strong=0376
20-21	הָעֹשֶׂ֥ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
20	הָ	הַ	SCONJ	_	_	21	mark	_	Gloss=[who]|Ref=2SA_12:5!15|MId=o100120050151|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
21	עֹשֶׂ֥ה	עָשָׂה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing	19	acl:relcl	_	Gloss=did|Ref=2SA_12:5!15|MId=o100120050152|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:100120050142;A1:100120050161;|Type=participle_active
22	זֹֽאת	זֹאת	PRON	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	obj	_	Gloss=this|Ref=2SA_12:5!16|MId=o100120050161|Strong=2063|Type=demonstrative|SpaceAfter=No
23	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	22	punct	_	Ref=2SA_12:5!16
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: a frame and its quote
- negation: no
- the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יִּֽחַר־ *it burned* | wayyiqtol · qal | אַף *the anger* |  |  |  |
| יֹּאמֶר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | דָּוִד *of David* |  |  |  |
| עֹשֶׂה *did* | participle active · qal | אִישׁ *man* | זֹֽאת *this* |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos}

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וּתְקֵיף רוּגְזָא דְדָוִד בְּגַבְרָא לַחֲדָא וַאֲמַר לְנָתָן קַיָים הוּא יְיָ אֲרֵי גְבַר חַיַב קְטוֹל גַבְרָא דַעֲבַד דָא:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan: 'As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this deserveth to die;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.303/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:2SA:268`.

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