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title: 2 Samuel 2:10 (JPS 1917) — Ish-bosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign ov… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ish-bosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. Who acts: Ish bosheth, Saul. 2 Samuel 2:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 2:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Ish-bosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years.

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**Who acts:** Ish bosheth, Saul · **What happens:** be, begin, reign · **To what, where:** Israel

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This is 2 Samuel 2:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (Ish bosheth, Saul), 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:43
# text = Ish-bosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years.
1	Ish	Ish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bosheth	Bosheth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	reign	reign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	reigned	reign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is** | past | Ish bosheth |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Saul |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **reign** | to-infinitive | Saul *not said here* |  |  | Israel |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reign** | past | Saul |  |  |  | year |  | tree rules |

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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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בֶּן־אַרְבָּעִ֨ים שָׁנָ֜ה אִֽישׁ־בֹּ֣שֶׁתאִֽישׁ־בֹּ֣שֶׁת בֶּן־שָׁא֗וּל בְּמָלְכוֹ֙ עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וּשְׁתַּ֥יִם שָׁנִ֖ים מָלָ֑ךְ אַ֚ךְ בֵּ֣ית יְהוּדָ֔ה הָי֖וּ אַחֲרֵ֥י דָוִֽד׃

[2 Samuel 2:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.2.10/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Ish-bosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years.**
2. [But the house of Judah followed David.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.44/)

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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:43` 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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