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title: 2 Samuel 17:14 (JPS 1917) — And Absalom and all the men of Israel said: 'The counsel of Hushai t… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Absalom and all the men of Israel said: 'The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.' — For the LORD had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom. Who acts: Absalom, counsel, LORD. 2 Samuel 17:14 
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# 2 Samuel 17:14 · JPS 1917

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And Absalom and all the men of Israel said: 'The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.' — For the LORD had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.

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**Who acts:** Absalom, counsel, LORD · **What happens:** say, be, ordain, defeat, bring · **To what, where:** good counsel, evil · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 17:14 · 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, counsel, LORD), 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:494
# text = And Absalom and all the men of Israel said: 'The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.' — For the LORD had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
12	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Hushai	Hushai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Archite	Archite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	ccomp	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Ahithophel	Ahithophel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
27	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
28	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	ordained	ordain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	defeat	defeat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Ahithophel	Ahithophel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	intent	intent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
44	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
47	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	acl	_	_
49	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
50	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- 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 and all men of Israel |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the counsel of Hushai |  |  |  |  | than the counsel of Ahithophel; good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ordain** | past · perfect | the LORD |  |  |  |  | to the intent | tree rules |
| 4 | **defeat** | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* | the good counsel of Ahithophel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bring** | might | the LORD | evil |  |  |  | upon Absalom | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent evil=Theme |

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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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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אַבְשָׁלוֹם֙ וְכָל־אִ֣ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל טוֹבָ֗ה עֲצַת֙ חוּשַׁ֣י הָאַרְכִּ֔י מֵעֲצַ֖ת אֲחִיתֹ֑פֶל וַיהוָ֣ה צִוָּ֗ה לְהָפֵ֞ר אֶת־עֲצַ֤ת אֲחִיתֹ֙פֶל֙ הַטּוֹבָ֔ה לְבַעֲב֗וּר הָבִ֧יא יְהוָ֛ה אֶל־אַבְשָׁל֖וֹם אֶת־הָרָעָֽה׃ס

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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:494` 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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