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title: 2 Samuel 15:3 (JPS 1917) — And Absalom said unto him: 'See, thy matters are good and right; but… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Absalom said unto him: 'See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.' Who acts: Absalom, matters, man, thy. 2 Samuel 15:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 15:3 · JPS 1917

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And Absalom said unto him: 'See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.'

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**Who acts:** Absalom, matters, man, thy · **What happens:** say, see, be, depute, hear, matter · **To what, where:** man, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 15:3 · 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 (Absalom, matters, man, thy), 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:420
# text = And Absalom said unto him: 'See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	See	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
22	deputed	depute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:agent	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
28	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed form=decl

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Absalom |  |  |  |  | unto king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | thy matters |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | thy matters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** | present | no man |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **depute** | participle |  | no man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **hear** | to-infinitive |  | thee |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus |
| 8 | **matter** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: 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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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלָיו֙ אַבְשָׁל֔וֹם רְאֵ֥ה דְבָרֶ֖ךָ טוֹבִ֣ים וּנְכֹחִ֑ים וְשֹׁמֵ֥עַ אֵין־לְךָ֖ מֵאֵ֥ת הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

[2 Samuel 15:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.15.3/)

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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:420` 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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