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title: 2 Samuel 4:7 (JPS 1917) — Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bed-c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bed-chamber, they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night. Who acts: Baanah, Rechab. 2 Samuel 4:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 4:7 · JPS 1917

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Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bed-chamber, they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.

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**Who acts:** Baanah, Rechab · **What happens:** come, lie, smite, slay, behead, take · **To what, where:** house, bed, Rechab, head

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This is 2 Samuel 4:7 · 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 (Baanah, Rechab), 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:120
# text = Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bed-chamber, they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	beheaded	behead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	Arabah	Arabah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	47	det	_	_
47	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl:unmarked	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Baanah |  |  | the house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **lie** | past | Rechab |  |  | Rechab's bed |  | in Rechab's bed chamber | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location |
| 3 | **smite** | past | Baanah | Rechab |  |  | now |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 4 | **slay** | past | Baanah *not said here* | Rechab |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 5 | **behead** | past | Baanah *not said here* | Rechab |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 6 | **take** | past | Baanah *not said here* | Rechab's head |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 7 | **go** | past | Baanah *not said here* |  |  |  | night | by the way of the Arabah | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by way=Location |

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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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וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ הַבַּ֗יִת וְהֽוּא־שֹׁכֵ֤ב עַל־מִטָּתוֹ֙ בַּחֲדַ֣ר מִשְׁכָּב֔וֹ וַיַּכֻּ֙הוּ֙ וַיְמִתֻ֔הוּ וַיָּסִ֖ירוּ אֶת־רֹאשׁ֑וֹ וַיִּקְחוּ֙ אֶת־רֹאשׁ֔וֹ וַיֵּֽלְכ֛וּ דֶּ֥רֶךְ הָעֲרָבָ֖ה כָּל־הַלָּֽיְלָה׃

[2 Samuel 4:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.4.7/)

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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:120` of Mova's parse database.

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