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title: 2 Samuel 16:10 (JPS 1917) — And the king said: 'What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? · tree and pragmatics
description: And the king said: 'What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? Who acts: king, I. 2 Samuel 16:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 16:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And the king said: 'What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah?

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**Who acts:** king, I · **What happens:** say, have, do · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 16:10 · 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 (king, I), 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:466
# text = And the king said: 'What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah?
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	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	vocative	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Zeruiah	Zeruiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  |  | ye's sons of Zeruiah *vocative* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ מַה־לִּ֥י וְלָכֶ֖ם בְּנֵ֣י צְרֻיָ֑ה כֹּ֣ה יְקַלֵּ֗ל כִּ֤י יְהוָה֙ אָ֤מַר לוֹ֙ קַלֵּ֣ל אֶת־דָּוִ֔ד וּמִ֣י יֹאמַ֔ר מַדּ֖וּעַ עָשִׂ֥יתָה כֵּֽן׃ס

[2 Samuel 16:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.16.10/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And the king said: 'What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah?**
2. [So let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him: Curse David; who then shall say: Wherefore hast thou done so?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.467/)

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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:466` 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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