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title: 2 Samuel 8:6 (JPS 1917) — Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus; and the Arameans becam… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus; and the Arameans became servants to David, and brought presents. Who acts: David, Arameans. 2 Samuel 8:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 8:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus; and the Arameans became servants to David, and brought presents.

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**Who acts:** David, Arameans · **What happens:** put, become, bring · **To what, where:** garrisons, Aram, servants, presents

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This is 2 Samuel 8:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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, Arameans), 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:214
# text = Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus; and the Arameans became servants to David, and brought presents.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	garrisons	garrison	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Aram	Aram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Arameans	aramean	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **put** | past | David | garrisons |  | Aram of Damascus | then |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent garrison=Theme in aram=Destination |
| 2 | **become** | past | the Arameans | servants to David |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **bring** | past | the Arameans *not said here* | presents |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent present=Theme |

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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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וַיָּ֨שֶׂם דָּוִ֤ד נְצִבִים֙ בַּאֲרַ֣מ דַּמֶּ֔שֶׂק אֲרַ֣מ דַּמֶּ֔שֶׂק וַתְּהִ֤י אֲרָם֙ לְדָוִ֔ד לַעֲבָדִ֖ים נוֹשְׂאֵ֣י מִנְחָ֑ה וַיֹּ֤שַׁע יְהוָה֙ אֶת־דָּוִ֔ד בְּכֹ֖ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר הָלָֽךְ׃

[2 Samuel 8:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.8.6/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus; and the Arameans became servants to David, and brought presents.**
2. [And the LORD gave victory to David whithersoever he went.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.215/)

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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:214` 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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