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title: 2 Samuel 19:14 (JPS 1917) — God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host b… · tree and pragmatics
description: God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.' Who acts: God, 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 2 of 2

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God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.'

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**Who acts:** God, thou · **What happens:** do, not be · **To what, where:** me, captain, room

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This is 2 Samuel 19:14 · 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 (God, 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:564
# text = God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.'
1	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	before	before	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
21	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | infinitive | God |  | me |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | thou | captain |  | the room of Joab | before me | of the host; continually *property* | 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?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.563/)
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.'**

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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:564` 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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