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title: 2 Samuel 17:6 (JPS 1917) — And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spoke unto him, saying:… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spoke unto him, saying: 'Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner; shall we do after his saying? if not, speak thou.' Who acts: Absalom, Ahithophel, we, thou. 2 Samuel 17:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 17:6 · JPS 1917

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And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spoke unto him, saying: 'Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner; shall we do after his saying? if not, speak thou.'

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**Who acts:** Absalom, Ahithophel, we, thou · **What happens:** come, speak, say, do · **To what, where:** Hushai, Absalom · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 17:6 · 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 (Absalom, Ahithophel, we, thou), 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:486
# text = And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spoke unto him, saying: 'Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner; shall we do after his saying? if not, speak thou.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	Hushai	Hushai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
17	Ahithophel	Ahithophel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	ccomp	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
27	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	saying	saying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
31	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	not	not	ADV	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advcl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
35	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	nsubj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · passive |  | Hushai | Absalom |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Absalom |  |  |  |  | unto Hushai | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Absalom *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | Ahithophel |  |  |  | after this manner |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **do** | shall | we |  |  |  | after Absalom's saying |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **say** |  | Absalom |  |  |  |  |  | nom saying «communication transitive»: poss=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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וַיָּבֹ֣א חוּשַׁי֮ אֶל־אַבְשָׁלוֹם֒ וַיֹּאמֶר֩ אַבְשָׁל֨וֹם אֵלָ֜יו לֵאמֹ֗ר כַּדָּבָ֤ר הַזֶּה֙ דִּבֶּ֣ר אֲחִיתֹ֔פֶל הֲנַעֲשֶׂ֖ה אֶת־דְּבָר֑וֹ אִם־אַ֖יִן אַתָּ֥ה דַבֵּֽר׃ס

[2 Samuel 17:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.17.6/)

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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:486` 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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