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title: 2 Samuel 17:1 (JPS 1917) — Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom: 'Let me now choose out twelve… · tree and pragmatics
description: Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom: 'Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night; Who acts: Ahithophel, me, I. 2 Samuel 17:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 17:1 · JPS 1917

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Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom: 'Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night;

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**Who acts:** Ahithophel, me, I · **What happens:** say, let, choose out, arise, pursue · **To what, where:** thousand men · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 17:1 · 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 (Ahithophel, me, 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:481
# text = Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom: 'Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night;
1	Moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Ahithophel	Ahithophel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	compound	_	_
14	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	arise	arise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	pursue	pursue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ahithophel |  |  |  |  | unto Absalom; moreover *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | me |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **choose out** | infinitive | me *not said here* | thousand men |  |  | now |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 4 | **arise** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pursue** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  | after David; night |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after david=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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וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֲחִיתֹ֖פֶל אֶל־אַבְשָׁלֹ֑ם אֶבְחֲרָ֣ה נָּ֗א שְׁנֵים־עָשָׂ֥ר אֶ֙לֶף֙ אִ֔ישׁ וְאָק֛וּמָה וְאֶרְדְּפָ֥ה אַחֲרֵי־דָוִ֖ד הַלָּֽיְלָה׃

[2 Samuel 17:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.17.1/)

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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:481` 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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