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title: 2 Samuel 5:19 (JPS 1917) — And David inquired of the LORD, saying: 'Shall I go up against the P… · tree and pragmatics
description: And David inquired of the LORD, saying: 'Shall I go up against the Philistines? wilt Thou deliver them into my hand?' And the LORD said unto David: 'Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into thy hand.' Who acts: David, I, Thou, LORD. 2 Samuel 5:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree 
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# 2 Samuel 5:19 · JPS 1917

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And David inquired of the LORD, saying: 'Shall I go up against the Philistines? wilt Thou deliver them into my hand?' And the LORD said unto David: 'Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into thy hand.'

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**Who acts:** David, I, Thou, LORD · **What happens:** inquire, say, go up, deliver · **To what, where:** Philistines, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 5:19 · 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 (David, I, Thou, LORD), 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:146
# text = And David inquired of the LORD, saying: 'Shall I go up against the Philistines? wilt Thou deliver them into my hand?' And the LORD said unto David: 'Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into thy hand.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
14	up	up	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	against	against	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Philistines	philistine	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
19	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
21	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
28	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
32	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
35	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
36	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	31	ccomp	_	_
37	up	up	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
39	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
41	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	Philistines	philistine	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
46	into	into	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
50	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=assert, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | David |  |  |  |  | of the LORD | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of lord=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | David *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go up** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | against the Philistines | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **deliver** | future | Thou | Philistines *= philistine* |  | my hand |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  | unto David | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **go up** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 7 | **deliver** | future | I | the Philistines |  | thy hand |  | certainly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent philistine=Patient |

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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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וַיִּשְׁאַ֨ל דָּוִ֤ד בַּֽיהוָה֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר הַאֶֽעֱלֶה֙ אֶל־פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים הֲתִתְּנֵ֖ם בְּיָדִ֑י וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֤ה אֶל־דָּוִד֙ עֲלֵ֔ה כִּֽי־נָתֹ֥ן אֶתֵּ֛ן אֶת־הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים בְּיָדֶֽךָ׃

[2 Samuel 5:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.5.19/)

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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:146` 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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