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title: 2 Samuel 18:12 (JPS 1917) — And the man said unto Joab: 'Though I should receive a thousand piec… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the man said unto Joab: 'Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, yet would I not put forth my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying: Beware that none touch the young man Absalom. Who acts: man, I, king, none. 2
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# 2 Samuel 18:12 · JPS 1917

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And the man said unto Joab: 'Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, yet would I not put forth my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying: Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.

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**Who acts:** man, I, king, none, our · **What happens:** say, receive, not put, charge, beware, touch · **To what, where:** thousand pieces, hand, thee, hearing, young man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 18:12 · 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 (man, I, king, none), 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:524
# text = And the man said unto Joab: 'Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, yet would I not put forth my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying: Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
9	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
27	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	against	against	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
36	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	charged	charge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
43	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	42	obj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	Abishai	Abishai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	Ittai	Ittai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	advcl	_	_
50	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
51	Beware	beware	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	ccomp	_	_
52	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
53	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	54	nsubj	_	_
54	touch	touch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	ccomp	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
58	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	appos	_	_
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: disagree
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- 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 | the man |  |  |  |  | unto Joab | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **receive** | should | I | a thousand pieces of silver |  | my hand |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent piece=Theme in hand=Location |
| 3 | **not** **put** | would | I | my hand |  |  |  | against the king's son; forth *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **charge** | past | the king | thee |  | our hearing |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **beware** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **touch** | present | none | the young man |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Co-Theme |
| 8 | **hear** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom hearing «act intransitive»: 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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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר הָאִישׁ֙ אֶל־יוֹאָ֔ב וְל֨וּאאָנֹכִ֜י שֹׁקֵ֤ל עַל־כַּפַּי֙ אֶ֣לֶף כֶּ֔סֶף לֹֽא־אֶשְׁלַ֥ח יָדִ֖י אֶל־בֶּן־הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ כִּ֣י בְאָזְנֵ֜ינוּ צִוָּ֣ה הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ אֹ֠תְךָ וְאֶת־אֲבִישַׁ֤י וְאֶת־אִתַּי֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר שִׁמְרוּ־מִ֕י בַּנַּ֖עַר בְּאַבְשָׁלֽוֹם׃

[2 Samuel 18:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.18.12/)

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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:524` 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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