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title: 2 Samuel 10:5 (JPS 1917) — And the king said: 'Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the king said: 'Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.' Who acts: king. 2 Samuel 10:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 10:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And the king said: 'Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.'

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** say, tarry, grow, return · **To what, where:** Jericho, beards · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 10:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (king), 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:250
# text = And the king said: 'Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Tarry	Tarry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Jericho	Jericho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	beards	beard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request, form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **tarry** | infinitive |  |  |  | Jericho |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at jericho=Location |
| 3 | **grow** | infinitive · passive |  | your beards |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **return** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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וַיַּגִּ֤דוּ לְדָוִד֙ וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח לִקְרָאתָ֔ם כִּֽי־הָי֥וּ הָאֲנָשִׁ֖ים נִכְלָמִ֣ים מְאֹ֑ד וַיֹּ֤אמֶר הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ שְׁב֣וּ בִֽירֵח֔וֹ עַד־יְצַמַּ֥ח זְקַנְכֶ֖ם וְשַׁבְתֶּֽם׃

[2 Samuel 10:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.10.5/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.249/)
2. **And the king said: 'Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.'**

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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:250` 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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