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title: 2 Samuel 4:12 (JPS 1917) — But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the grave of… · tree and pragmatics
description: But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron. Who acts: men. 2 Samuel 4:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 4:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** take, bury · **To what, where:** head, grave

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This is 2 Samuel 4:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (men), 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:126
# text = But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Ish	Ish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	bosheth	bosheth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Abner	Abner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Hebron	Hebron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **take** | past | men *= man* | the head of Ish bosheth |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 2 | **bury** | past | men *= man* *not said here* | head |  | the grave of Abner |  | in Hebron | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in grave=Destination |

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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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וַיְצַו֩ דָּוִ֨ד אֶת־הַנְּעָרִ֜ים וַיַּהַרְג֗וּם וַֽיְקַצְּצ֤וּ אֶת־יְדֵיהֶם֙ וְאֶת־רַגְלֵיהֶ֔ם וַיִּתְל֥וּ עַל־הַבְּרֵכָ֖ה בְּחֶבְר֑וֹן וְאֵ֨ת רֹ֤אשׁ אִֽישׁ־בֹּ֙שֶׁת֙אִֽישׁ־בֹּ֙שֶׁת֙ לָקָ֔חוּ וַיִּקְבְּר֥וּ בְקֶֽבֶר־אַבְנֵ֖ר בְּחֶבְרֽוֹן׃פ

[2 Samuel 4:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.4.12/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.125/)
2. **But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.**

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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:126` 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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