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title: 2 Samuel 3:34 (JPS 1917) — Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters; as a man fa… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Samuel 3:34 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters; as a man falleth before the children of iniquity, so didst thou fall.

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**Who acts:** feet, man, thou · **What happens:** not bind, put, fall · **To what, where:** hands, fetters

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This is 2 Samuel 3:34 · 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 (feet, man, thou), 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:2SA:105
# text = Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters; as a man falleth before the children of iniquity, so didst thou fall.
1	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	10	cc	_	_
8	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	fetters	fetter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	falleth	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
18	before	before	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
27	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bind** | past · passive |  | Thy hands |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **put** | participle | thy feet |  |  | fetters |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | present | a man |  |  |  | before the children of iniquity |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before child=Location |
| 4 | **fall** | past · do-support | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#hebrew}

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יָדֶ֣ךָ לֹֽא־אֲסֻר֗וֹת וְרַגְלֶ֙יךָ֙ לֹא־לִנְחֻשְׁתַּ֣יִם הֻגָּ֔שׁוּ כִּנְפ֛וֹל לִפְנֵ֥י בְנֵֽי־עַוְלָ֖ה נָפָ֑לְתָּ וַיֹּסִ֥פוּ כָל־הָעָ֖ם לִבְכּ֥וֹת עָלָֽיו׃

[2 Samuel 3:34: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.34/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters; as a man falleth before the children of iniquity, so didst thou fall.**
2. [And all the people wept again over him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.106/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:105` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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