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title: 2 Samuel 13:20 (JPS 1917) — And Absalom her brother said unto her: 'Hath Amnon thy brother been… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Absalom her brother said unto her: 'Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but now hold thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother; take not this thing to heart.' So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house. Who acts: Absalom, Amnon, Tamar, thy. 2 Samuel 13:20 in JPS 1917 with its dep
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# 2 Samuel 13:20 · JPS 1917

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And Absalom her brother said unto her: 'Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but now hold thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother; take not this thing to heart.' So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house.

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**Who acts:** Absalom, Amnon, Tamar, thy · **What happens:** say, be, hold, not take, remain, pacify · **To what, where:** peace, brother, thing, heart, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 13:20 · 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 (Absalom, Amnon, Tamar, thy), 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:361
# text = And Absalom her brother said unto her: 'Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but now hold thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother; take not this thing to heart.' So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
10	Hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
11	Amnon	Amnon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	ccomp	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
21	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	vocative	_	_
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
32	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	parataxis	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
34	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
39	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
40	So	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
41	Tamar	Tamar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
43	desolate	desolate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	xcomp	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod:poss	_	_
47	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	_
48	's	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	_
49	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=ask

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Absalom |  |  |  |  | unto Tamar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present · perfect | Amnon |  |  |  |  | with thee | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | infinitive | Amnon *not said here* | thy peace |  |  | now | my sister *vocative* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Amnon | thy brother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **take** | infinitive |  | this thing |  | heart |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme to heart=Destination |
| 6 | **remain** | past | Tamar |  |  | Tamar's brother's house |  | desolate *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
| 7 | **pacify** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=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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וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אֵלֶ֜יהָ אַבְשָׁל֣וֹם אָחִ֗יהָ הַאֲמִינ֣וֹן אָחִיךְ֮ הָיָ֣ה עִמָּךְ֒ וְעַתָּ֞ה אֲחוֹתִ֤י הַחֲרִ֙ישִׁי֙ אָחִ֣יךְ ה֔וּא אַל־תָּשִׁ֥יתִי אֶת־לִבֵּ֖ךְ לַדָּבָ֣ר הַזֶּ֑ה וַתֵּ֤שֶׁב תָּמָר֙ וְשֹׁ֣מֵמָ֔ה בֵּ֖ית אַבְשָׁל֥וֹם אָחִֽיהָ׃

[2 Samuel 13:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.20/)

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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:361` 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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