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title: 2 Samuel 20:4 (JPS 1917) — Then said the king to Amasa: 'Call me the men of Judah together with… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said the king to Amasa: 'Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be thou here present.' Who acts: king, thou. 2 Samuel 20:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 20:4 · JPS 1917

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Then said the king to Amasa: 'Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be thou here present.'

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**Who acts:** king, thou · **What happens:** say, call, be · **To what, where:** Amasa, men, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 20:4 · 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, 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:605
# text = Then said the king to Amasa: 'Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be thou here present.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Amasa	Amasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	together	together	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
16	within	within	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
22	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nsubj	_	_
23	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
24	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  | Amasa |  | then |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to amasa=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **call** | infinitive |  | the men of Judah | me |  | day | together *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme man=Result |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | thou |  |  | here |  | present *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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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ אֶל־עֲמָשָׂ֔א הַזְעֶק־לִ֥י אֶת־אִישׁ־יְהוּדָ֖ה שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת יָמִ֑ים וְאַתָּ֖ה פֹּ֥ה עֲמֹֽד׃

[2 Samuel 20:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.4/)

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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:605` 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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