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title: 2 Samuel 2:19 (JPS 1917) — And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the ri… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner. Who acts: Asahel. 2 Samuel 2:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 2:19 · JPS 1917

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And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.

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**Who acts:** Asahel · **What happens:** pursue, not turn, follow · **To what, where:** going, Abner

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This is 2 Samuel 2:19 · 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 (Asahel), 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:53
# text = And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Asahel	Asahel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Abner	Abner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	going	going	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	20	cc	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
21	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
23	Abner	Abner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **pursue** | past | Asahel |  |  |  | after Abner |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after abner=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **turn** | past | Asahel |  |  | going |  | to the right hand | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in going=Source to hand=Trajectory |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund | Asahel *not said here* | Abner |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abner=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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וַיִּרְדֹּ֥ף עֲשָׂהאֵ֖ל אַחֲרֵ֣י אַבְנֵ֑ר וְלֹֽא־נָטָ֣ה לָלֶ֗כֶת עַל־הַיָּמִין֙ וְעַֽל־הַשְּׂמֹ֔אול מֵאַחֲרֵ֖י אַבְנֵֽר׃

[2 Samuel 2:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.2.19/)

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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:53` 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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