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title: 2 Samuel 16:6 (JPS 1917) — And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David;… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David; and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. Who acts: Ziba, people. 2 Samuel 16:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 16:6 · JPS 1917

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And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David; and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.

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**Who acts:** Ziba, people · **What happens:** cast, be · **To what, where:** stones, David, right hand

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This is 2 Samuel 16:6 · 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 (Ziba, people), 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:462
# text = And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David; and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **cast** | past | Ziba | stones |  | David and all servants of king David |  |  | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at david=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | all people and all mighty men |  |  | Ziba's right hand and Ziba's left |  |  | 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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וַיְסַקֵּ֤ל בָּֽאֲבָנִים֙ אֶת־דָּוִ֔ד וְאֶת־כָּל־עַבְדֵ֖י הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ דָּוִ֑ד וְכָל־הָעָם֙ וְכָל־הַגִּבֹּרִ֔ים מִימִינ֖וֹ וּמִשְּׂמֹאלֽוֹ׃

[2 Samuel 16:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.16.6/)

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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:462` 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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