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title: 2 Samuel 14:27 (JPS 1917) — And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose… · tree and pragmatics
description: And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar; she was a woman of a fair countenance. Who acts: name, Tamar. 2 Samuel 14:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 14:27 · JPS 1917

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And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar; she was a woman of a fair countenance.

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**Who acts:** name, Tamar · **What happens:** bear, be, name · **To what, where:** three sons, Tamar, woman

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This is 2 Samuel 14:27 · 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 (name, Tamar), 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:411
# text = And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar; she was a woman of a fair countenance.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	Tamar	Tamar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **bear** | past · passive |  | three sons and one daughter |  | there |  | unto Absalom | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Tamar's name | Tamar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Tamar | a woman |  |  |  | of a fair countenance | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** |  | Tamar |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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וַיִּֽוָּלְד֤וּ לְאַבְשָׁלוֹם֙ שְׁלוֹשָׁ֣ה בָנִ֔ים וּבַ֥ת אַחַ֖ת וּשְׁמָ֣הּ תָּמָ֑ר הִ֣יא הָיְתָ֔ה אִשָּׁ֖ה יְפַ֥ת מַרְאֶֽה׃פ

[2 Samuel 14:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.14.27/)

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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:411` 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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