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title: 2 Samuel 11:12 (JPS 1917) — And David said to Uriah: 'Tarry here to-day also, and to-morrow I wi… · tree and pragmatics
description: And David said to Uriah: 'Tarry here to-day also, and to-morrow I will let thee depart.' So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow. Who acts: David, I, thee, Uriah. 2 Samuel 11:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 11:12 · JPS 1917

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And David said to Uriah: 'Tarry here to-day also, and to-morrow I will let thee depart.' So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.

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**Who acts:** David, I, thee, Uriah · **What happens:** say, tarry, let, depart, abode · **To what, where:** Uriah, thee, Jerusalem · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 11:12 · 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, I, thee, Uriah), 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:281
# text = And David said to Uriah: 'Tarry here to-day also, and to-morrow I will let thee depart.' So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.
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	Tarry	Tarry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
22	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	obj	_	_
23	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
26	So	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	Uriah	Uriah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	abode	abode	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request, indirect=0

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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 | **tarry** | infinitive |  |  |  | here | day |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **let** | future | I | thee |  |  |  | to morrow | tree rules |
| 4 | **depart** | infinitive | thee *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **abode** | past | Uriah |  |  | Jerusalem | day |  | tree rules |

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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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וַיֹּ֨אמֶר דָּוִ֜ד אֶל־אוּרִיָּ֗ה שֵׁ֥ב בָּזֶ֛ה גַּם־הַיּ֖וֹם וּמָחָ֣ר אֲשַׁלְּחֶ֑ךָּ וַיֵּ֨שֶׁב אוּרִיָּ֧ה בִירוּשָׁלִַ֛ם בַּיּ֥וֹם הַה֖וּא וּמִֽמָּחֳרָֽת׃

[2 Samuel 11:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.11.12/)

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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:281` 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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