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title: 2 Samuel 15:32 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the asce… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Samuel 15:32 · JPS 1917

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And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the ascent, where God was wont to be worshipped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head.

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**Who acts:** God, Hushai · **What happens:** come, pass, be, worship, meet · **To what, where:** foolishness, David

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This is 2 Samuel 15:32 · 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 (God, Hushai), 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:451
# text = And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the ascent, where God was wont to be worshipped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
9	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ascent	ascent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
20	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	wont	wont	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	worshipped	worship	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
27	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	Hushai	Hushai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Archite	Archite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
32	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	rent	rent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	advcl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
43	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | foolishness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past · passive |  | David |  |  |  | to the top of the ascent | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | God |  |  |  |  | wont *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **worship** | to-infinitive · passive | God *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
| 6 | **come** | past | Hushai |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Hushai *not said here* | David |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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וַיְהִ֤י דָוִד֙ בָּ֣א עַד־הָרֹ֔אשׁ אֲשֶֽׁר־יִשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֥ה שָׁ֖ם לֵאלֹהִ֑ים וְהִנֵּ֤ה לִקְרָאתוֹ֙ חוּשַׁ֣י הָאַרְכִּ֔י קָר֙וּעַ֙ כֻּתָּנְתּ֔וֹ וַאֲדָמָ֖ה עַל־רֹאשֽׁוֹ׃

[2 Samuel 15:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.15.32/)

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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:451` 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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