--- title: 2 Samuel 13:26 (JPS 1917) — Then said Absalom: 'If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go wit… · tree and pragmatics description: Then said Absalom: 'If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us.' And the king said unto him: 'Why should he go with thee?' Who acts: Absalom, I, brother, king. 2 Samuel 13:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.367/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [2 Samuel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/) / [chapter 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/13/) / [13:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.26/) / JPS 1 # 2 Samuel 13:26 · JPS 1917 Then said Absalom: 'If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us.' And the king said unto him: 'Why should he go with thee?' **Who acts:** Absalom, I, brother, king · **What happens:** say, pray, let, go · **To what, where:** thee, brother · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Samuel 13:26 · 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, I, brother, 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:367 # text = Then said Absalom: 'If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us.' And the king said unto him: 'Why should he go with thee?' 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Absalom Absalom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 6 If if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 not not ADV RB Polarity=Neg 13 advcl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 11 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 Amnon Amnon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 17 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 22 And and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 unto unto ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 28 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 29 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 30 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 31 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 33 obl _ _ 36 ? ? PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ 37 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: disagree - voice: character - polarity: neg - indirect: yes - teacher: changed act=disagree | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Absalom | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **pray** | present | I | thee | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | | my brother | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | infinitive | my brother *not said here* | | | | | with us | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with we=Beneficiary | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king | | | | | unto Amnon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **go** | should | king | | | | | with thee | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with thou=Beneficiary | 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} וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אַבְשָׁל֔וֹם וָלֹ֕א יֵֽלֶךְ־נָ֥א אִתָּ֖נוּ אַמְנ֣וֹן אָחִ֑י וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לוֹ֙ הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ לָ֥מָּה יֵלֵ֖ךְ עִמָּֽךְ׃ [2 Samuel 13:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.26/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:367` 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 13:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.366/) - next →: [2 Samuel 13:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.368/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 13:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.26/)