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title: 2 Samuel 13:21 (JPS 1917) — But when king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth. · tree and pragmatics
description: But when king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth. Who acts: king David, David. 2 Samuel 13:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 13:21 · JPS 1917

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But when king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth.

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**Who acts:** king David, David · **What happens:** hear, be

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This is 2 Samuel 13:21 · 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 (king David, David), 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:362
# text = But when king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	king	king	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	wroth	wroth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | king David |  |  |  |  | of all things | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of thing=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | David |  |  |  |  | wroth *property* | 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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וְהַמֶּ֣לֶךְ דָּוִ֔ד שָׁמַ֕ע אֵ֥ת כָּל־הַדְּבָרִ֖ים הָאֵ֑לֶּה וַיִּ֥חַר ל֖וֹ מְאֹֽד׃

[2 Samuel 13:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.21/)

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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:362` 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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