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title: 2 Samuel 12:17 (JPS 1917) — And the elders of his house arose, and stood beside him, to raise hi… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the elders of his house arose, and stood beside him, to raise him up from the earth; but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them. Who acts: elders, David. 2 Samuel 12:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 12:17 · JPS 1917

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And the elders of his house arose, and stood beside him, to raise him up from the earth; but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.

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**Who acts:** elders, David · **What happens:** arise, stand, raise up, eat · **To what, where:** David, earth, bread

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This is 2 Samuel 12:17 · 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 (elders, David), 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:318
# text = And the elders of his house arose, and stood beside him, to raise him up from the earth; but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	30	cc	_	_
28	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
31	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | the elders of David's house |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the elders of David's house *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beside David | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location |
| 3 | **raise up** | to-infinitive | the elders of David's house *not said here* | David |  | the earth |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme from earth=Destination |
| 4 | **eat** | past · do-support | David | bread |  |  |  | with elders *= elder* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |

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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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וַיָּקֻ֜מוּ זִקְנֵ֤י בֵיתוֹ֙ עָלָ֔יו לַהֲקִימ֖וֹ מִן־הָאָ֑רֶץ וְלֹ֣א אָבָ֔ה וְלֹֽא־בָרָ֥א אִתָּ֖ם לָֽחֶם׃

[2 Samuel 12:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.12.17/)

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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:318` 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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