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title: 2 Samuel 17:25 (JPS 1917) — Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra the Jesraelite,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra the Jesraelite, that went in to Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother. Who acts: Amasa, name, man, Ithra. 2 Samuel 17:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 17:25 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra the Jesraelite, that went in to Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.

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**Who acts:** Amasa, name, man, Ithra · **What happens:** be, go in, name · **To what, where:** son, Ithra, Abigal

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This is 2 Samuel 17:25 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (Amasa, name, man, Ithra), 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:506
# text = Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra the Jesraelite, that went in to Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	Amasa	Amasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	Ithra	Ithra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Jesraelite	Jesraelite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Abigal	Abigal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Nahash	Nahash	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	Zeruiah	Zeruiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	_
30	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
32	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Amasa | the son |  |  | now | of a man | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Ithra's name | Ithra |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go in** | past | a man |  |  | Abigal |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to abigal=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **name** |  | Ithra |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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וְאֶת־עֲמָשָׂ֗א שָׂ֧ם אַבְשָׁלֹ֛ם תַּ֥חַת יוֹאָ֖ב עַל־הַצָּבָ֑א וַעֲמָשָׂ֣א בֶן־אִ֗ישׁ וּשְׁמוֹ֙ יִתְרָ֣א הַיִּשְׂרְאֵלִ֔י אֲשֶׁר־בָּא֙ אֶל־אֲבִיגַ֣ל בַּת־נָחָ֔שׁ אֲח֥וֹת צְרוּיָ֖ה אֵ֥ם יוֹאָֽב׃

[2 Samuel 17:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.17.25/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And Absalom had set Amasa over the host instead of Joab.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.505/)
2. **Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra the Jesraelite, that went in to Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.**

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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:506` 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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