--- title: 2 Samuel 5:6 (JPS 1917) — And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, th… · tree and pragmatics description: And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke unto David, saying: 'Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither'; thinking: 'David cannot come in hither.' Who acts: king, Jebusites, thou, David. 2 Samuel 5:6 in --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.132/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [2 Samuel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/) / [chapter 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/5/) / [5:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.5.6/) / JPS 1 # 2 Samuel 5:6 · JPS 1917 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke unto David, saying: 'Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither'; thinking: 'David cannot come in hither.' **Who acts:** king, Jebusites, thou, David · **What happens:** go, speak, say, take away, not come in, think · **To what, where:** Jerusalem, blind · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Samuel 5:6 · 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 (king, Jebusites, thou, David), 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:132 # text = And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke unto David, saying: 'Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither'; thinking: 'David cannot come in hither.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 7 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Jerusalem Jerusalem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 against against ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Jebusites Jebusite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 inhabitants inhabitant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 appos _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 22 unto unto ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 27 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 28 Except except SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 nsubj _ _ 30 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ _ 31 away away ADV RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 blind blind NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 lame lame NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 38 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 41 nsubj _ _ 39 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 42 in in ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 43 hither hither ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 44 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 45 ; ; PUNCT : _ 46 punct _ _ 46 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 47 : : PUNCT : _ 52 punct _ _ 48 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 52 punct _ _ 49 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 50 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 51 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 52 advmod _ _ 52 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 ccomp _ _ 53 in in ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 54 hither hither ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 52 punct _ _ 56 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 52 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the king and king's men | | | Jerusalem | | against the Jebusites | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to jerusalem=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the Jebusites | | | | | unto David | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Jebusites *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **take away** | present | thou | the blind and the lame | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blind=Theme | | 5 | **not** **come in** | shall | thou | | | | | hither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the king and king's men *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **not** **come in** | can | David | | | | | hither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} וַיֵּ֨לֶךְ הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ וַֽאֲנָשָׁיו֙ יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם אֶל־הַיְבֻסִ֖י יוֹשֵׁ֣ב הָאָ֑רֶץ וַיֹּ֨אמֶר לְדָוִ֤ד לֵאמֹר֙ לֹא־תָב֣וֹא הֵ֔נָּה כִּ֣י אִם־הֱסִֽירְךָ֗ הַעִוְרִ֤ים וְהַפִּסְחִים֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר לֹֽא־יָב֥וֹא דָוִ֖ד הֵֽנָּה׃ [2 Samuel 5:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.5.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:132` 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 5:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.131/) - next →: [2 Samuel 5:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.133/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 5:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.5.6/)