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title: 2 Samuel 19:2 (JPS 1917) — And it was told Joab: 'Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Abs… · tree and pragmatics
description: And it was told Joab: 'Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.' Who acts: king. 2 Samuel 19:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 19:2 · JPS 1917

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And it was told Joab: 'Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.'

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** tell, weep, mourn · **To what, where:** gate, Joab · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 19:2 · 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 (king), 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:547
# text = And it was told Joab: 'Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
8	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	weepeth	weep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	mourneth	mourn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | gate | Joab |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: joab=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **weep** | present | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mourn** | present | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Absalom | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for absalom=Attribute |

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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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וַיֻּגַּ֖ד לְיוֹאָ֑ב הִנֵּ֨ה הַמֶּ֧לֶךְ בֹּכֶ֛ה וַיִּתְאַבֵּ֖ל עַל־אַבְשָׁלֹֽם׃

[2 Samuel 19:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.2/)

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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:547` 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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