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title: 2 Samuel 19:11 (JPS 1917) — Now, therefore, why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?' · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, therefore, why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?' Who acts: ye, word. 2 Samuel 19:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 19:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Now, therefore, why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?'

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**Who acts:** ye, word · **What happens:** not speak, bring back · **To what, where:** word, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 19:11 · 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 (ye, word), 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:560
# text = Now, therefore, why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?'
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: request
- 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 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | present | ye | a word |  |  | now | therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring back** | gerund | a word *not said here* |  | the king |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument king=Destination |

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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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וְאַבְשָׁלוֹם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר מָשַׁ֣חְנוּ עָלֵ֔ינוּ מֵ֖ת בַּמִּלְחָמָ֑ה וְעַתָּ֗ה לָמָ֥ה אַתֶּ֛ם מַחֲרִשִׁ֖ים לְהָשִׁ֥יב אֶת־הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס

[2 Samuel 19:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.11/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.559/)
2. **Now, therefore, why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?'**

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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:560` 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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