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title: 2 Samuel 10:17 (JPS 1917) — And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and pass… · tree and pragmatics
description: And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. Who acts: David. 2 Samuel 10:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 10:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam.

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**Who acts:** David · **What happens:** tell, gather, pass, come · **To what, where:** River, David, Israel, Jordan, Helam · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 10:17 · 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), 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:263
# text = And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	together	together	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Helam	Helam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | River | David |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient david=Topic |
| 2 | **gather** | past | David | all Israel |  |  |  | together *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent israel=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | past | David *not said here* |  |  | the Jordan |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over jordan=Location |
| 4 | **come** | past | David *not said here* |  |  | Helam |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to helam=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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וַיֻּגַּ֣ד לְדָוִ֗דס וַיֶּאֱסֹ֤ף אֶת־כָּל־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וַיַּעֲבֹ֣ר אֶת־הַיַּרְדֵּ֔ן וַיָּבֹ֖א חֵלָ֑אמָה וַיַּעַרְכ֤וּ אֲרָם֙ לִקְרַ֣את דָּוִ֔ד וַיִּלָּחֲמ֖וּ עִמּֽוֹ׃

[2 Samuel 10:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.10.17/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam.**
2. [And the Arameans set themselves in array against David, and fought with him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.264/)

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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:263` 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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