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title: 2 Samuel 13:13 (JPS 1917) — Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not wit… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.' Who acts: I, you, king. 2 Samuel 13:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 13:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.'

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**Who acts:** I, you, king · **What happens:** pray, speak, not withhold · **To what, where:** thee, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 13:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (I, you, king), 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:353
# text = Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.'
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
6	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	withhold	withhold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | present | I | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now | unto the king; therefore *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **withhold** | future | king | me |  | thee |  |  | 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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וַאֲנִ֗י אָ֤נָה אוֹלִיךְ֙ אֶת־חֶרְפָּתִ֔י וְאַתָּ֗ה תִּהְיֶ֛ה כְּאַחַ֥ד הַנְּבָלִ֖ים בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְעַתָּה֙ דַּבֶּר־נָ֣א אֶל־הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ כִּ֛י לֹ֥א יִמְנָעֵ֖נִי מִמֶּֽךָּ׃

[2 Samuel 13:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.13/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And I, whither shall I carry my shame? and as for thee, thou wilt be as one of the base men in Israel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.352/)
2. **Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.'**

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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:353` 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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