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title: 2 Samuel 11:10 (JPS 1917) — And when they had told David, saying: 'Uriah went not down unto his… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Samuel 11:10 · JPS 1917

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And when they had told David, saying: 'Uriah went not down unto his house', David said unto Uriah: 'Art thou not come from a journey? wherefore didst thou not go down unto thy house?'

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**Who acts:** kings, Uriah, David, thou · **What happens:** tell, say, not go down, not come · **To what, where:** David, journey · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 11:10 · 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 (kings, Uriah, David, thou), 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:279
# text = And when they had told David, saying: 'Uriah went not down unto his house', David said unto Uriah: 'Art thou not come from a journey? wherefore didst thou not go down unto thy house?'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
6	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Uriah	Uriah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
19	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Uriah	Uriah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
25	Art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nsubj	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VB	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	ccomp	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
33	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
34	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
35	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	37	nsubj	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	parataxis	_	_
38	down	down	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
43	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- 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 · perfect | kings *= king* |  | David |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent david=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | kings *= king* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **go down** | past | Uriah |  |  |  |  | unto Uriah's house; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | David |  |  |  |  | unto Uriah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **come** | present | thou |  |  | a journey |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from journey=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **not** **go down** | past · do-support | thou |  |  |  |  | unto thy house; down, wherefore *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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 לֵאמֹ֔ר לֹֽא־יָרַ֥ד אוּרִיָּ֖ה אֶל־בֵּית֑וֹ וַיֹּ֨אמֶר דָּוִ֜ד אֶל־אוּרִיָּ֗ה הֲל֤וֹא מִדֶּ֙רֶךְ֙ אַתָּ֣ה בָ֔א מַדּ֖וּעַ לֹֽא־יָרַ֥דְתָּ אֶל־בֵּיתֶֽךָ׃

[2 Samuel 11:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.11.10/)

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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:279` 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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