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title: 2 Samuel 2:8 (JPS 1917) — Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, had taken Ish-bosh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, had taken Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim; Who acts: Abner. 2 Samuel 2:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 2:8 · JPS 1917

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Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, had taken Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

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**Who acts:** Abner · **What happens:** take, bring over · **To what, where:** Ish bosheth, Saul, Mahanaim

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This is 2 Samuel 2:8 · 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 (Abner), 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:41
# text = Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, had taken Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
2	Abner	Abner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ner	Ner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	Ish	Ish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
18	bosheth	Bosheth	PROPN	NNS	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Mahanaim	Mahanaim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **take** | past · perfect | Abner |  | Ish bosheth |  | now |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bosheth=Destination |
| 2 | **bring over** | past | Abner *not said here* | Saul | Mahanaim |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to mahanaim=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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וְאַבְנֵ֣ר בֶּן־נֵ֔ר שַׂר־צָבָ֖א אֲשֶׁ֣ר לְשָׁא֑וּל לָקַ֗ח אֶת־אִ֥ישׁ בֹּ֙שֶׁת֙ אִ֥ישׁ בֹּ֙שֶׁת֙ בֶּן־שָׁא֔וּל וַיַּעֲבִרֵ֖הוּ מַחֲנָֽיִם׃

[2 Samuel 2:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.2.8/)

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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:41` 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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