--- title: 2 Samuel 12:5 (JPS 1917) — And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said t… · tree and pragmatics description: And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan: 'As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this deserveth to die; Who acts: David, LORD, man. 2 Samuel 12:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.303/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [2 Samuel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/) / [chapter 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/12/) / [12:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.12.5/) / JPS 1 # 2 Samuel 12:5 · JPS 1917 And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan: 'As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this deserveth to die; **Who acts:** David, LORD, man · **What happens:** kindle, say, live, do, deserve, die · **To what, where:** anger, Nathan, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Samuel 12:5 · 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, LORD, man), 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:303 # text = And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan: 'As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this deserveth to die; 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 6 greatly greatly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 kindled kindle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 against against ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Nathan Nathan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 18 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 19 As as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 liveth live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 27 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 obj _ _ 30 deserveth deserve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kindle** | past · passive | | David's anger | | | | against the man; greatly *property* | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | David | | Nathan | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to nathan=Recipient | | 3 | **live** | present | the LORD | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **do** | present · perfect | the man | this | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | | 5 | **deserve** | present | the man | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **die** | to-infinitive | the man *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **anger** | | David | | | | | | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | 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} וַיִּֽחַר־אַ֥ף דָּוִ֛ד בָּאִ֖ישׁ מְאֹ֑ד וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־נָתָ֔ן חַי־יְהוָ֕ה כִּ֣י בֶן־מָ֔וֶת הָאִ֖ישׁ הָעֹשֶׂ֥ה זֹֽאת׃ [2 Samuel 12:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.12.5/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:303` 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. - ← previous: [2 Samuel 12:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.302/) - next →: [2 Samuel 12:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.304/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 12:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.12.5/)