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title: 2 Samuel 17:3 (JPS 1917) — and I will bring back all the people unto thee; when all shall have… · tree and pragmatics
description: and I will bring back all the people unto thee; when all shall have returned, save the man whom thou seekest, all the people will be in peace.' Who acts: I, all, thou, people. 2 Samuel 17:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 17:3 · JPS 1917

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and I will bring back all the people unto thee; when all shall have returned, save the man whom thou seekest, all the people will be in peace.'

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**Who acts:** I, all, thou, people · **What happens:** bring back, return, seek, be · **To what, where:** people, man, peace

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This is 2 Samuel 17:3 · 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 (I, all, thou, 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:483
# text = and I will bring back all the people unto thee; when all shall have returned, save the man whom thou seekest, all the people will be in peace.'
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	16	mark	_	_
13	all	all	PRON	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nsubj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	save	save	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
21	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
22	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
23	seekest	seek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- 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 | **bring back** | future | I |  | all people |  |  | unto thee | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument people=Destination |
| 2 | **return** | shall · perfect | all |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **seek** | present | thou | the man |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | future | all people |  |  | peace |  |  | 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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וְאָשִׁ֥יבָה כָל־הָעָ֖ם אֵלֶ֑יךָ כְּשׁ֣וּב הַכֹּ֔ל הָאִישׁ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אַתָּ֣ה מְבַקֵּ֔שׁ כָּל־הָעָ֖ם יִהְיֶ֥ה שָׁלֽוֹם׃

[2 Samuel 17:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.17.3/)

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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:483` 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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