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title: 2 Samuel 17:5 (JPS 1917) — Then said Absalom: 'Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hea… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said Absalom: 'Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.' Who acts: Absalom, us. 2 Samuel 17:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 17:5 · JPS 1917

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Then said Absalom: 'Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.'

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**Who acts:** Absalom, us · **What happens:** say, call, let, hear · **To what, where:** Hushai, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 17:5 · 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 (Absalom, us), 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:485
# text = Then said Absalom: 'Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	Hushai	Hushai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Archite	Archite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- 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 | Absalom |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **call** | infinitive |  |  | Hushai |  | now |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hushai=Recipient |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | likewise *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Absalom |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אַבְשָׁל֔וֹם קְרָ֣א נָ֔א גַּ֖ם לְחוּשַׁ֣י הָאַרְכִּ֑י וְנִשְׁמְעָ֥ה מַה־בְּפִ֖יו גַּם־הֽוּא׃

[2 Samuel 17:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.17.5/)

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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:485` 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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