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title: 2 Samuel 5:25 (JPS 1917) — And David did so, as the LORD commanded him, and smote the Philistin… · tree and pragmatics
description: And David did so, as the LORD commanded him, and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gezer. Who acts: David, LORD, thou. 2 Samuel 5:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 5:25 · JPS 1917

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And David did so, as the LORD commanded him, and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gezer.

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**Who acts:** David, LORD, thou · **What happens:** do, command, smote, come · **To what, where:** David, Philistines, Geba, Gezer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 5:25 · 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, LORD, 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:152
# text = And David did so, as the LORD commanded him, and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gezer.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	smote	smote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Philistines	philistine	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Geba	Geba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Gezer	Gezer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **do** | past | David |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **command** | past | the LORD | David |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **smote** | past | David *not said here* | the Philistines |  | Geba |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | present | thou |  |  | Gezer |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to gezer=Initial\_Location |

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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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וַיַּ֤עַשׂ דָּוִד֙ כֵּ֔ן כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר צִוָּ֖הוּ יְהוָ֑ה וַיַּךְ֙ אֶת־פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים מִגֶּ֖בַע עַד־בֹּאֲךָ֥ גָֽזֶר׃פ

[2 Samuel 5:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.5.25/)

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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:152` 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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