--- title: 2 Samuel 5:23 (JPS 1917) — And when David inquired of the LORD, He said: 'Thou shalt not go up;… · tree and pragmatics description: And when David inquired of the LORD, He said: 'Thou shalt not go up; make a circuit behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry-trees. 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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 (David, Thou), 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:150 # text = And when David inquired of the LORD, He said: 'Thou shalt not go up; make a circuit behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry-trees. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 3 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 inquired inquire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 12 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 13 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nsubj _ _ 14 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 17 up up ADV RB _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 19 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 circuit circuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 behind behind ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 come come VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 27 upon upon ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 over over ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 30 against against ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 mulberry mulberry NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 34 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=warn, form=decl | # | 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* | past | David | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **go up** | shall | Thou | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **make** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | a circuit | | | | behind Philistines *= philistine* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset circuit=Product | | 5 | **come over** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | | | | | upon Philistines *= philistine*; against the mulberry trees; over *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=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} וַיִּשְׁאַ֤ל דָּוִד֙ בַּֽיהוָ֔ה וַיֹּ֖אמֶר לֹ֣א תַעֲלֶ֑ה הָסֵב֙ אֶל־אַ֣חֲרֵיהֶ֔ם וּבָ֥אתָ לָהֶ֖ם מִמּ֥וּל בְּכָאִֽים׃ [2 Samuel 5:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.5.23/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:150` 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 5:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.149/) - next →: [2 Samuel 5:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.151/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 5:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.5.23/)