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title: 2 Samuel 8:8 (JPS 1917) — And from Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David to… · tree and pragmatics
description: And from Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass. Who acts: king David. 2 Samuel 8:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 8:8 · JPS 1917

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And from Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.

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**Who acts:** king David · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** much brass, Betah

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This is 2 Samuel 8:8 · 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 (king David), 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:217
# text = And from Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Betah	Betah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Berothai	Berothai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Hadadezer	Hadadezer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	exceeding	exceed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **take** | past | king David | much brass |  | Betah and Berothai |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent brass=Theme from betah=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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וּמִבֶּ֥טַח וּמִבֵּֽרֹתַ֖י עָרֵ֣י הֲדַדְעָ֑זֶר לָקַ֞ח הַמֶּ֧לֶךְ דָּוִ֛ד נְחֹ֖שֶׁת הַרְבֵּ֥ה מְאֹֽד׃ס

[2 Samuel 8:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.8.8/)

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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:217` 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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