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title: 2 Samuel 6:3 (JPS 1917) — And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of t… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart. Who acts: people, house, Uzzah. 2 Samuel 6:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 6:3 · JPS 1917

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And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.

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**Who acts:** people, house, Uzzah · **What happens:** set, bring, be, drive · **To what, where:** ark, new cart, house, hill

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This is 2 Samuel 6:3 · 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 (people, house, Uzzah), 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:155
# text = And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	set	set	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	ark	ark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Abinadab	Abinadab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	acl:relcl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
29	Uzzah	Uzzah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	Ahio	Ahio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	appos	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Abinadab	Abinadab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
38	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	.	.	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 | **set** | past | people | the ark of God |  | a new cart |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ark=Theme upon cart=Destination |
| 2 | **bring** | past | people *not said here* | ark |  | the house of Abinadab |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme out house=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | the house of Abinadab |  |  | the hill |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **drive** | past | Uzzah and Ahio | the new cart |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent cart=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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וַיַּרְכִּ֜בוּ אֶת־אֲר֤וֹן הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ אֶל־עֲגָלָ֣ה חֲדָשָׁ֔ה וַיִּשָּׂאֻ֔הוּ מִבֵּ֥ית אֲבִינָדָ֖ב אֲשֶׁ֣ר בַּגִּבְעָ֑ה וְעֻזָּ֣א וְאַחְי֗וֹ בְּנֵי֙ אֲבִ֣ינָדָ֔ב נֹהֲגִ֖ים אֶת־הָעֲגָלָ֥ה חֲדָשָֽׁה׃

[2 Samuel 6:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.6.3/)

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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:155` 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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