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title: 2 Samuel 13:8 (JPS 1917) — So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was lying down. · tree and pragmatics
description: So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was lying down. Who acts: Tamar, Amnon. 2 Samuel 13:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 13:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was lying down.

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**Who acts:** Tamar, Amnon · **What happens:** go, lie down · **To what, where:** house

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This is 2 Samuel 13:8 · 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 (Tamar, Amnon), 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:345
# text = So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was lying down.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Tamar	Tamar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Amnon	Amnon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **go** | past | Tamar |  |  | Tamar's brother Amnon's house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **lie down** | past · progressive | Amnon |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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וַתֵּ֣לֶךְ תָּמָ֗ר בֵּ֛ית אַמְנ֥וֹן אָחִ֖יהָ וְה֣וּא שֹׁכֵ֑ב וַתִּקַּ֨ח אֶת־הַבָּצֵ֤ק וַתָּ֙לָשׁ֙ וַתְּלַבֵּ֣ב לְעֵינָ֔יו וַתְּבַשֵּׁ֖ל אֶת־הַלְּבִבֽוֹת׃

[2 Samuel 13:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.8/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was lying down.**
2. [And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.346/)

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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:345` 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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