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title: 2 Samuel 12:14 (JPS 1917) — Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast greatly blasphemed the enemi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast greatly blasphemed the enemies of the LORD, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.' Who acts: thou, child. 2 Samuel 12:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 12:14 · JPS 1917

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Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast greatly blasphemed the enemies of the LORD, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.'

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**Who acts:** thou, child · **What happens:** blaspheme, bear, die · **To what, where:** enemies, child

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This is 2 Samuel 12:14 · 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 (thou, child), 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:314
# text = Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast greatly blasphemed the enemies of the LORD, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.'
1	Howbeit	howbeit	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
7	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
8	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	blasphemed	blaspheme	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	obl	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- 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 | **blaspheme** | present · perfect | thou | the enemies of the LORD |  |  |  | by this deed; greatly *property* | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | present · passive |  | the child |  |  |  | unto thee | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **die** | shall | the child |  |  |  |  | howbeit, surely *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «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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אֶ֗פֶס כִּֽי־נִאֵ֤ץ נִאַ֙צְתָּ֙ אֶת־אֹיְבֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה בַּדָּבָ֖ר הַזֶּ֑ה גַּ֗ם הַבֵּ֛ן הַיִּלּ֥וֹד לְךָ֖ מ֥וֹת יָמֽוּת׃

[2 Samuel 12:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.12.14/)

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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:314` 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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