--- title: 2 Samuel 1:16 (JPS 1917) — And David said unto him: 'Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth… · tree and pragmatics description: And David said unto him: 'Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying: I have slain the LORD'S anointed.' 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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, blood, mouth, I), 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:18 # text = And David said unto him: 'Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying: I have slain the LORD'S anointed.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 8 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 cop _ _ 11 upon upon ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 15 for for SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 testified testify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 20 against against ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 slain slay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 ccomp _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 'S 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 anointed anoint NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 33 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | David | | | | | unto man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | infinitive | Thy blood | | | | | upon thy head | tree rules | | 3 | **testify** *speech: other* | present · perfect | thy mouth | | | | | against thee | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | thy mouth *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **slay** | present · perfect | I | the LORD's anointed | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anoint=Patient | 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} וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלָיו֙ דָּוִ֔ד דָּמְךָ֖ עַל־רֹאשֶׁ֑ךָ כִּ֣י פִ֗יךָ עָנָ֤ה בְךָ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר אָנֹכִ֥י מֹתַ֖תִּי אֶת־מְשִׁ֥יחַ יְהוָֽה׃ס [2 Samuel 1:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.1.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:18` 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 1:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.17/) - next →: [2 Samuel 1:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.19/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 1:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.1.16/)