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title: 2 Samuel 16:5 (JPS 1917) — And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out thence a… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out thence a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera; he came out, and kept on cursing as he came. Who acts: king David, man, name, David. 2 Samuel 16:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# 2 Samuel 16:5 · JPS 1917

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And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out thence a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera; he came out, and kept on cursing as he came.

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**Who acts:** king David, man, name, David, Shimei · **What happens:** come, come out, be, keep on, curse, name · **To what, where:** Bahurim, Shimei

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This is 2 Samuel 16:5 · 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 (king David, man, name, David), 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:461
# text = And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out thence a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera; he came out, and kept on cursing as he came.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Bahurim	Bahurim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	Shimei	Shimei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	acl:relcl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Gera	Gera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	cursing	curse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	xcomp	_	_
44	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | king David |  |  | Bahurim |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bahurim=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **come out** | past | a man of the family of the house of Saul |  |  | there |  | thence *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Shimei's name | Shimei |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come out** | past | David |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **keep on** | past | David *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **curse** | gerund | David *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **come** | past | David |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **name** |  | Shimei |  |  |  |  |  | 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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וּבָ֛א הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ דָּוִ֖ד עַד־בַּֽחוּרִ֑ים וְהִנֵּ֣ה מִשָּׁם֩ אִ֨ישׁ יוֹצֵ֜א מִמִּשְׁפַּ֣חַת בֵּית־שָׁא֗וּל וּשְׁמוֹ֙ שִׁמְעִ֣י בֶן־גֵּרָ֔א יֹצֵ֥א יָצ֖וֹא וּמְקַלֵּֽל׃

[2 Samuel 16:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.16.5/)

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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:461` of Mova's parse database.

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