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title: 2 Samuel 14:13 (JPS 1917) — And the woman said: 'Wherefore then hast thou devised such a thing a… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Samuel 14:13 · JPS 1917

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And the woman said: 'Wherefore then hast thou devised such a thing against the people of God? for in speaking this word the king is as one that is guilty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished one.

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**Who acts:** woman, thou, king · **What happens:** say, devise, speak, be, not fetch, banish · **To what, where:** thing, word, banished one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 14:13 · 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 (woman, thou, 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:397
# text = And the woman said: 'Wherefore then hast thou devised such a thing against the people of God? for in speaking this word the king is as one that is guilty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished one.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
7	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
9	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
11	devised	devise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
12	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	14	det:predet	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	against	against	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
22	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	one	one	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	parataxis	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
39	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
42	home	home	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	again	again	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
45	banished	banish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	amod	_	_
46	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, indirect=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **devise** | present · perfect | thou | such thing |  |  | then | against the people of God; wherefore *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | the king *not said here* | this word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | the king |  |  |  |  | as one | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | guilty *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **fetch** | present · do-support | the king | king's banished one |  |  | again | home *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 7 | **banish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ הָֽאִשָּׁ֔ה וְלָ֧מָּה חָשַׁ֛בְתָּה כָּזֹ֖את עַל־עַ֣ם אֱלֹהִ֑ים וּמִדַּבֵּ֨ר הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ הַדָּבָ֤ר הַזֶּה֙ כְּאָשֵׁ֔ם לְבִלְתִּ֛י הָשִׁ֥יב הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ אֶֽת־נִדְּחֽוֹ׃

[2 Samuel 14:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.14.13/)

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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:397` 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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