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title: 2 Samuel 14:21 (JPS 1917) — And the king said unto Joab: 'Behold now, I have granted this reques… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Samuel 14:21 · JPS 1917

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And the king said unto Joab: 'Behold now, I have granted this request; go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back.'

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**Who acts:** king, I · **What happens:** say, grant, go, bring · **To what, where:** request, young man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 14:21 · 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, I), 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:405
# text = And the king said unto Joab: 'Behold now, I have granted this request; go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
9	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
19	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  |  |  | unto Joab | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **grant** | present · perfect | I | this request |  |  | now |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent request=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | infinitive |  |  | the young man |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination |

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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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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ אֶל־יוֹאָ֔ב הִנֵּה־נָ֥א עָשִׂ֖יתִי אֶת־הַדָּבָ֣ר הַזֶּ֑ה וְלֵ֛ךְ הָשֵׁ֥ב אֶת־הַנַּ֖עַר אֶת־אַבְשָׁלֽוֹם׃

[2 Samuel 14:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.14.21/)

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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:405` 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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