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title: 2 Samuel 17:7 (JPS 1917) — And Hushai said unto Absalom: 'The counsel that Ahithophel hath give… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Hushai said unto Absalom: 'The counsel that Ahithophel hath given this time is not good.' Who acts: Hushai, Ahithophel, counsel. 2 Samuel 17:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 17:7 · JPS 1917

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And Hushai said unto Absalom: 'The counsel that Ahithophel hath given this time is not good.'

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**Who acts:** Hushai, Ahithophel, counsel · **What happens:** say, give, not be · **To what, where:** counsel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 17:7 · 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 (Hushai, Ahithophel, counsel), 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:487
# text = And Hushai said unto Absalom: 'The counsel that Ahithophel hath given this time is not good.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Hushai	Hushai	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	:	_	18	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
11	Ahithophel	Ahithophel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- 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 | Hushai |  |  |  |  | unto Absalom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | present · perfect | Ahithophel | the counsel |  |  | time |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | the counsel |  |  |  |  | good *property* | 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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וַיֹּ֥אמֶר חוּשַׁ֖י אֶל־אַבְשָׁל֑וֹם לֹֽא־טוֹבָ֧ה הָעֵצָ֛ה אֲשֶׁר־יָעַ֥ץ אֲחִיתֹ֖פֶל בַּפַּ֥עַם הַזֹּֽאת׃

[2 Samuel 17:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.17.7/)

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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:487` 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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