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title: 2 Samuel 13:39 (JPS 1917) — And the soul of king David failed with longing for Absalom; for he w… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the soul of king David failed with longing for Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead. Who acts: soul. 2 Samuel 13:39 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 13:39 · JPS 1917

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And the soul of king David failed with longing for Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

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**Who acts:** soul · **What happens:** fail, comfort, see, be · **To what, where:** soul · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 13:39 · 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 (soul), 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:383
# text = And the soul of king David failed with longing for Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	comforted	comfort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
17	concerning	concern	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Amnon	Amnon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fail** | past | the soul of king David |  |  |  |  | with longing for Absalom | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **comfort** | past · passive |  | soul |  |  |  | concern Amnon | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **see** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | soul |  |  |  |  | dead *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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וַתְּכַל֙ דָּוִ֣ד הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ לָצֵ֖את אֶל־אַבְשָׁל֑וֹם כִּֽי־נִחַ֥ם עַל־אַמְנ֖וֹן כִּֽי־מֵֽת׃ס

[2 Samuel 13:39: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.39/)

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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:383` 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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