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title: 2 Samuel 12:26 (JPS 1917) — Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city. Who acts: Joab. 2 Samuel 12:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 12:26 · JPS 1917

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Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

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**Who acts:** Joab · **What happens:** fight, take · **To what, where:** royal city

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This is 2 Samuel 12:26 · 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 (Joab), 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:330
# text = Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	against	against	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Rabbah	Rabbah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Ammon	Ammon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **fight** | past | Joab |  |  |  | now | against Rabbah of the children of Ammon | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | Joab *not said here* | the royal city |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme |

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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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וַיִּלָּ֣חֶם יוֹאָ֔ב בְּרַבַּ֖ת בְּנֵ֣י עַמּ֑וֹן וַיִּלְכֹּ֖ד אֶת־עִ֥יר הַמְּלוּכָֽה׃

[2 Samuel 12:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.12.26/)

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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:330` 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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