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title: 2 Samuel 11:7 (JPS 1917) — And when Uriah was come unto him, David asked of him how Joab did, a… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when Uriah was come unto him, David asked of him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered. Who acts: David, Joab, people, war. 2 Samuel 11:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 11:7 · JPS 1917

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And when Uriah was come unto him, David asked of him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.

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**Who acts:** David, Joab, people, war · **What happens:** come, ask, do, fare, prosper · **To what, where:** Uriah · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 11:7 · 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 (David, Joab, people, war), 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:276
# text = And when Uriah was come unto him, David asked of him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	Uriah	Uriah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	fared	fare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	prospered	prosper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **come** | past · passive |  | Uriah |  |  |  | unto David | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | David |  |  |  |  | of Uriah | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | past | Joab |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fare** | past | the people |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **prosper** | past | the war |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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וַיָּבֹ֥א אוּרִיָּ֖ה אֵלָ֑יו וַיִּשְׁאַ֣ל דָּוִ֗ד לִשְׁל֤וֹם יוֹאָב֙ וְלִשְׁל֣וֹם הָעָ֔ם וְלִשְׁל֖וֹם הַמִּלְחָמָֽה׃

[2 Samuel 11:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.11.7/)

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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:276` 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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