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title: 2 Samuel 13:7 (JPS 1917) — Then David sent home to Tamar, saying: 'Go now to thy brother Amnon'… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then David sent home to Tamar, saying: 'Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.' Who acts: David. 2 Samuel 13:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 13:7 · JPS 1917

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Then David sent home to Tamar, saying: 'Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.'

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**Who acts:** David · **What happens:** send, say, go, dress · **To what, where:** Tamar, house, food, Amnon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 13:7 · 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), 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:344
# text = Then David sent home to Tamar, saying: 'Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Tamar	Tamar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	Amnon	Amnon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	dress	dress	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | David |  | Tamar |  | then | home *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to tamar=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | David *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | thy brother's house | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **dress** | infinitive |  | food | Amnon |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח דָּוִ֛ד אֶל־תָּמָ֖ר הַבַּ֣יְתָה לֵאמֹ֑ר לְכִ֣י נָ֗א בֵּ֚ית אַמְנ֣וֹן אָחִ֔יךְ וַעֲשִׂי־ל֖וֹ הַבִּרְיָֽה׃

[2 Samuel 13:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.7/)

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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:344` 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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