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title: 2 Samuel 11:8 (JPS 1917) — And David said to Uriah: 'Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet.'… · tree and pragmatics
description: And David said to Uriah: 'Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet.' And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of food from the king. Who acts: David, Uriah, mess. 2 Samuel 11:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 11:8 · JPS 1917

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And David said to Uriah: 'Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet.' And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of food from the king.

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**Who acts:** David, Uriah, mess · **What happens:** say, go down, wash, depart, follow, mess · **To what, where:** Uriah, feet, house, David, food · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 11:8 · 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 (David, Uriah, mess), 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:277
# text = And David said to Uriah: 'Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet.' And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of food from the king.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Uriah	Uriah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	wash	wash	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
20	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	Uriah	Uriah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
32	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | David |  | Uriah |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to uriah=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go down** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to thy house; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **wash** | infinitive |  | thy feet |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |
| 4 | **depart** | past | Uriah |  |  | the king's house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out house=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **follow** | past | a mess of food | David |  | there |  | from the king | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from king=Trajectory |
| 6 | **mess** |  |  | food |  |  |  |  | nom mess «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר דָּוִד֙ לְא֣וּרִיָּ֔הרֵ֥ד לְבֵיתְךָ֖ וּרְחַ֣ץ רַגְלֶ֑יךָ וַיֵּצֵ֤א אֽוּרִיָּה֙ מִבֵּ֣ית הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וַתֵּצֵ֥א אַחֲרָ֖יו מַשְׂאַ֥ת הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

[2 Samuel 11:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.11.8/)

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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:277` 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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