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title: 2 Samuel 12:9 (JPS 1917) — Wherefore hast thou despised the word of the LORD, to do that which… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherefore hast thou despised the word of the LORD, to do that which is evil in My sight? Who acts: thou, My. 2 Samuel 12:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 12:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Wherefore hast thou despised the word of the LORD, to do that which is evil in My sight?

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**Who acts:** thou, My · **What happens:** despise, do, be, word, sight · **To what, where:** word, that, sight, LORD

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This is 2 Samuel 12:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (thou, My), 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:308
# text = Wherefore hast thou despised the word of the LORD, to do that which is evil in My sight?
1	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	despised	despise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **despise** | present · perfect | thou | the word of the LORD |  |  |  | wherefore *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  | My sight |  | evil *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **word** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **sight** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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מַדּ֜וּעַ בָּזִ֣יתָ ׀ אֶת־דְּבַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת הָרַע֮ בְּעֵינַי֒ אֵ֣ת אוּרִיָּ֤ה הַֽחִתִּי֙ הִכִּ֣יתָ בַחֶ֔רֶב וְאֶ֨ת־אִשְׁתּ֔וֹ לָקַ֥חְתָּ לְּךָ֖ לְאִשָּׁ֑ה וְאֹת֣וֹ הָרַ֔גְתָּ בְּחֶ֖רֶב בְּנֵ֥י עַמּֽוֹן׃

[2 Samuel 12:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.12.9/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Wherefore hast thou despised the word of the LORD, to do that which is evil in My sight?**
2. [Uriah the Hittite thou hast smitten with the sword, and his wife thou hast taken to be thy wife, and him thou hast slain with the sword of the children of Ammon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.309/)

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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:308` 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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