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title: 2 Samuel 3:35 (JPS 1917) — And all the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet… · tree and pragmatics
description: And all the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying: 'God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or aught else, till the sun be down.' Who acts: people, David, bread, I. 2 Samuel 3:35 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# 2 Samuel 3:35 · JPS 1917

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And all the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying: 'God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or aught else, till the sun be down.'

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**Who acts:** people, David, bread, I, sun · **What happens:** come, cause, eat, be, swear, say · **To what, where:** David, bread, day · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 3:35 · 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 (people, David, bread, I), 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:107
# text = And all the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying: 'God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or aught else, till the sun be down.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
25	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	_
33	also	also	ADV	RB	_	29	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	taste	taste	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
38	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	aught	aught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
42	else	else	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
47	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
48	down	down	ADV	RB	_	37	advcl	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
50	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | all people |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cause** | to-infinitive | all people *not said here* | David |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | David *not said here* | bread |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | past | bread | day |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **swear** | past | David |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | David *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **taste** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | bread or aught |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme bread=Attribute |
| 8 | **is** | infinitive | the sun |  |  |  |  | down *property* | tree rules |

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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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וַיָּבֹ֣א כָל־הָעָ֗ם לְהַבְר֧וֹת אֶת־דָּוִ֛ד לֶ֖חֶם בְּע֣וֹד הַיּ֑וֹם וַיִּשָּׁבַ֨ע דָּוִ֜ד לֵאמֹ֗ר כֹּ֣ה יַעֲשֶׂה־לִּ֤י אֱלֹהִים֙ וְכֹ֣ה יֹסִ֔יף כִּ֣י אִם־לִפְנֵ֧י בֽוֹא־הַשֶּׁ֛מֶשׁ אֶטְעַם־לֶ֖חֶם א֥וֹ כָל־מְאֽוּמָה׃

[2 Samuel 3:35: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.35/)

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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:107` of Mova's parse database.

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