--- title: 2 Samuel 4:11 (JPS 1917) — How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his… · tree and pragmatics description: How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?' 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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 (wicked men, 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:124 # text = How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?' 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 much much ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 6 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 slain slay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 righteous righteous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 17 upon upon ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 21 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 25 require require VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 away away ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 ? ? PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ 40 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slay** | present · perfect | wicked men | a righteous person | | LORD's own house | | upon LORD's bed | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient | | 2 | **not** **require** | shall | I | LORD's blood of your hand | | | now | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme blood=Precondition | | 3 | **take away** | infinitive | I *not said here* | you | | the earth | | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent you=Theme from earth=Initial\_Location | 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} אַ֞ף כִּֽי־אֲנָשִׁ֣ים רְשָׁעִ֗ים הָרְג֧וּ אֶת־אִישׁ־צַדִּ֛יק בְּבֵית֖וֹ עַל־מִשְׁכָּב֑וֹ וְעַתָּ֗ה הֲל֨וֹא אֲבַקֵּ֤שׁ אֶת־דָּמוֹ֙ מִיֶּדְכֶ֔ם וּבִעַרְתִּ֥י אֶתְכֶ֖ם מִן־הָאָֽרֶץ׃ [2 Samuel 4:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.4.11/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:124` 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. - ← previous: [2 Samuel 4:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.123/) - next →: [2 Samuel 4:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.125/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 4:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.4.11/)