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title: 2 Samuel 19:14 (JPS 1917) — And say ye to Amasa: Art thou not my bone and my flesh? · tree and pragmatics
description: And say ye to Amasa: Art thou not my bone and my flesh? Who acts: ye, thou. 2 Samuel 19:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 19:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And say ye to Amasa: Art thou not my bone and my flesh?

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**Who acts:** ye, thou · **What happens:** say, not be · **To what, where:** Amasa, bone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 19:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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, thou), 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:563
# text = And say ye to Amasa: Art thou not my bone and my flesh?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Amasa	Amasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	Art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=ask

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | ye |  | Amasa |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to amasa=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | thou | my bone and my flesh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וְלַֽעֲמָשָׂא֙ תֹּֽמְר֔וּ הֲל֛וֹא עַצְמִ֥י וּבְשָׂרִ֖י אָ֑תָּה כֹּ֣ה יַֽעֲשֶׂה־לִּ֤י אֱלֹהִים֙ וְכֹ֣ה יוֹסִ֔יף אִם־לֹ֠א שַׂר־צָבָ֞א תִּהְיֶ֧ה לְפָנַ֛י כָּל־הַיָּמִ֖ים תַּ֥חַת יוֹאָֽב׃

[2 Samuel 19:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.14/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And say ye to Amasa: Art thou not my bone and my flesh?**
2. [God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.564/)

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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:563` 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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