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title: 2 Samuel 17:13 (JPS 1917) — Moreover, if he withdraw himself into a city, then shall all Israel… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Samuel 17:13 · JPS 1917

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Moreover, if he withdraw himself into a city, then shall all Israel bring up ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the valley until there be not one small stone found there.'

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**Who acts:** Israel, we, one small stone · **What happens:** withdraw, bring up, draw, be, find · **To what, where:** Israel, city, ropes, valley, one small stone

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This is 2 Samuel 17:13 · 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 (Israel, we, one small stone), 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:493
# text = Moreover, if he withdraw himself into a city, then shall all Israel bring up ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the valley until there be not one small stone found there.'
1	Moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	withdraw	withdraw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
32	be	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
35	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
37	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
38	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
40	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character, act=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **withdraw** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Israel | Israel |  | a city |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 2 | **bring up** | shall | all Israel | ropes |  |  | then | to that city; moreover *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rope=Patient |
| 3 | **draw** | future | we | city |  |  |  | into the valley *result* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Patient into valley=Result |
| 4 | **be** | present | one small stone |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | participle |  | one small stone *not said here* |  | there |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=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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וְאִם־אֶל־עִיר֙ יֵֽאָסֵ֔ף וְהִשִּׂ֧יאוּ כָֽל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל אֶל־הָעִ֥יר הַהִ֖יא חֲבָלִ֑ים וְסָחַ֤בְנוּ אֹתוֹ֙ עַד־הַנַּ֔חַל עַ֛ד אֲשֶֽׁר־לֹא־נִמְצָ֥א שָׁ֖ם גַּם־צְרֽוֹר׃פ

[2 Samuel 17:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.17.13/)

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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:493` 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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