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title: 2 Samuel 15:16 (JPS 1917) — And the king left ten women, that were concubines, to keep the house. · tree and pragmatics
description: And the king left ten women, that were concubines, to keep the house. Who acts: king, ten women. 2 Samuel 15:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 15:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And the king left ten women, that were concubines, to keep the house.

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**Who acts:** king, ten women · **What happens:** leave, be, keep · **To what, where:** ten women, concubines, house

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This is 2 Samuel 15:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (king, ten women), 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:435
# text = And the king left ten women, that were concubines, to keep the house.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	concubines	concubine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **leave** | past | the king | ten women |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | ten women | concubines |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | the house |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |

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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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וַיֵּצֵ֥א הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ וְכָל־בֵּית֖וֹ בְּרַגְלָ֑יו וַיַּעֲזֹ֣ב הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ אֵ֣ת עֶ֧שֶׂר נָשִׁ֛ים פִּֽלַגְשִׁ֖ים לִשְׁמֹ֥ר הַבָּֽיִת׃

[2 Samuel 15:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.15.16/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And the king went forth, and all his household after him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.434/)
2. **And the king left ten women, that were concubines, to keep the house.**

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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:435` 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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