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title: 2 Samuel 14:23 (JPS 1917) — So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem. · tree and pragmatics
description: So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem. Who acts: Joab. 2 Samuel 14:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 14:23 · JPS 1917

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So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

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**Who acts:** Joab · **What happens:** arise, go, bring · **To what, where:** Geshur, Absalom, Jerusalem

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This is 2 Samuel 14:23 · 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 (Joab), 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:407
# text = So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Geshur	Geshur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | Joab |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | Joab *not said here* |  |  | Geshur |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to geshur=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **bring** | past | Joab *not said here* | Absalom | Jerusalem |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent absalom=Theme to jerusalem=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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וַיָּ֥קָם יוֹאָ֖ב וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ גְּשׁ֑וּרָה וַיָּבֵ֥א אֶת־אַבְשָׁל֖וֹם יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃פ

[2 Samuel 14:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.14.23/)

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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:407` 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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