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title: 2 Samuel 13:12 (JPS 1917) — And she answered him: 'Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such… · tree and pragmatics
description: And she answered him: 'Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel; do not thou this wanton deed. Who acts: Tamar, thou. 2 Samuel 13:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 13:12 · JPS 1917

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And she answered him: 'Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel; do not thou this wanton deed.

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**Who acts:** Tamar, thou · **What happens:** answer, not force, do, not do · **To what, where:** Amnon, me, such thing, Israel, wanton deed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 13:12 · 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 (Tamar, thou), 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:351
# text = And she answered him: 'Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel; do not thou this wanton deed.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
7	Nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	vocative	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	force	force	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
28	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
30	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nsubj	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
32	wanton	wanton	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Tamar |  | Amnon |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **force** | infinitive · do-support |  |  | me |  |  | my brother *vocative* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 3 | **do** | ought · passive |  | no such thing |  | Israel |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **not** **do** | infinitive | thou | this wanton deed |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality |

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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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וַתֹּ֣אמֶר ל֗וֹ אַל־אָחִי֙ אַל־תְּעַנֵּ֔נִי כִּ֛י לֹא־יֵֽעָשֶׂ֥ה כֵ֖ן בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אַֽל־תַּעֲשֵׂ֖ה אֶת־הַנְּבָלָ֥ה הַזֹּֽאת׃

[2 Samuel 13:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.12/)

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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:351` 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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