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title: 2 Samuel 2:7 (JPS 1917) — Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be ye valiant; for Saul… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be ye valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.' Who acts: you, hands, ye, Saul. 2 Samuel 2:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 2:7 · JPS 1917

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Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be ye valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.'

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**Who acts:** you, hands, ye, Saul, house · **What happens:** let, be, anoint · **To what, where:** hands, me

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This is 2 Samuel 2:7 · 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 (you, hands, ye, Saul), 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:40
# text = Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be ye valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.'
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
12	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	also	also	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	anointed	anoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	xcomp	_	_
31	over	over	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- 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 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | your hands |  |  | now | therefore *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | your hands *not said here* |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  | valiant *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | Saul |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **anoint** | present · perfect | the house of Judah | me |  |  |  | over hands *= hand* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Result |

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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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וְעַתָּ֣ה ׀ תֶּחֱזַ֣קְנָה יְדֵיכֶ֗ם וִֽהְיוּ֙ לִבְנֵי־חַ֔יִל כִּי־מֵ֖ת אֲדֹנֵיכֶ֣ם שָׁא֑וּל וְגַם־אֹתִ֗י מָשְׁח֧וּ בֵית־יְהוּדָ֛ה לְמֶ֖לֶךְ עֲלֵיהֶֽם׃פ

[2 Samuel 2:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.2.7/)

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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:40` 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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