--- title: 2 Samuel 13:16 (JPS 1917) — And she said unto him: 'Not so, because this great wrong in putting… · tree and pragmatics description: And she said unto him: 'Not so, because this great wrong in putting me forth is worse than the other that thou didst unto me.' But he would not hearken unto her. 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But he would not hearken unto her. **Who acts:** Israel, great wrong, thou, Amnon · **What happens:** say, put, be, do, not hearken · **To what, where:** me · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Samuel 13:16 · 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 (Israel, great wrong, thou, 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:357 # text = And she said unto him: 'Not so, because this great wrong in putting me forth is worse than the other that thou didst unto me.' But he would not hearken unto her. 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 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 8 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 3 ccomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 12 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 13 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 wrong wrong NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 15 in in SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 putting put VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 forth forth ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 ccomp _ _ 21 than than ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obl _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 obj _ _ 25 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 nsubj _ _ 26 didst do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 unto unto ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 30 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 31 But but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 hearken hearken VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 36 unto unto ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: fragment - act: disagree - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=disagree | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Israel | | | | | unto Amnon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **put** | gerund | this great wrong *not said here* | | me | | | forth *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Goal | | 3 | **is** | present | this great wrong | | | | | than the other; bad *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **do** | past | thou | | | | | unto me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | | 5 | **not** **hearken** | would | Amnon | | | | | unto Israel | tree rules | 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} וַתֹּ֣אמֶר ל֗וֹ אַל־אוֹדֹ֞ת הָרָעָ֤ה הַגְּדוֹלָה֙ הַזֹּ֔את מֵאַחֶ֛רֶת אֲשֶׁר־עָשִׂ֥יתָ עִמִּ֖י לְשַׁלְּחֵ֑נִי וְלֹ֥א אָבָ֖ה לִשְׁמֹ֥עַֽ לָֽהּ׃ [2 Samuel 13:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:357` 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. - ← previous: [2 Samuel 13:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.356/) - next →: [2 Samuel 13:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.358/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 13:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.16/)