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title: 2 Samuel 20:2 (JPS 1917) — So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed… · tree and pragmatics
description: So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah did cleave unto their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem. Who acts: men. 2 Samuel 20:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 20:2 · JPS 1917

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So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah did cleave unto their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** go up, follow, cleave · **To what, where:** David, Sheba, Jordan

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This is 2 Samuel 20:2 · 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 (men), 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:602
# text = So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah did cleave unto their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	Sheba	Sheba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Bichri	Bichri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	cleave	cleave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
28	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
35	even	even	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **go up** | past | all men of Israel |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund | all men of Israel *not said here* | David |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent david=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | past | all men of Israel *not said here* | Sheba |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheba=Theme |
| 4 | **cleave** | past · do-support | the men of Judah |  |  | the Jordan to Jerusalem |  | unto tents's king | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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וַיַּ֜עַל כָּל־אִ֤ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ מֵאַחֲרֵ֣י דָוִ֔ד אַחֲרֵ֖י שֶׁ֣בַע בֶּן־בִּכְרִ֑י וְאִ֤ישׁ יְהוּדָה֙ דָּבְק֣וּ בְמַלְכָּ֔ם מִן־הַיַּרְדֵּ֖ן וְעַד־יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

[2 Samuel 20:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.2/)

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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:602` 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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