--- title: 2 Samuel 20:8 (JPS 1917) — And Joab was girded with his apparel of war that he had put on, and… · tree and pragmatics description: And Joab was girded with his apparel of war that he had put on, and thereon was a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out. Who acts: Joab, girdle. 2 Samuel 20:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.610/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [2 Samuel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/) / [chapter 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/20/) / [20:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.8/) / JPS 2 # 2 Samuel 20:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 And Joab was girded with his apparel of war that he had put on, and thereon was a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out. **Who acts:** Joab, girdle · **What happens:** gird, put on, be, fasten, go, fall out · **To what, where:** Joab, apparel, sword, sheath This is 2 Samuel 20:8 · 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 (Joab, girdle), 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:610 # text = And Joab was girded with his apparel of war that he had put on, and thereon was a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 Joab Joab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 girded gird VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 apparel apparel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 obj _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 acl:relcl _ _ 14 on on ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 thereon thereon PRON RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 18 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 girdle girdle NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 fastened fasten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 25 upon upon ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 loins loin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 sheath sheath NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 31 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 37 forth forth ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 40 out out ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gird** | past · passive | | Joab | | | | with Joab's apparel of war | tree rules | | 2 | **put on** | past · perfect | Joab | Joab's apparel of war | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent that=Goal | | 3 | **be** | past | a girdle with a sword | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fasten** | participle | | a sword *not said here* | | the sheath | | upon Joab's loins | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **go** | past | Joab | | | | | forth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **fall out** | past | girdle | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} הֵ֗ם עִם־הָאֶ֤בֶן הַגְּדוֹלָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּגִבְע֔וֹן וַעֲמָשָׂ֖א בָּ֣א לִפְנֵיהֶ֑ם וְיוֹאָ֞ב חָג֣וּר ׀ מִדּ֣וֹ לְבֻשׁוּ֗ וְעָלָ֞יו חֲג֥וֹר חֶ֙רֶב֙ מְצֻמֶּ֤דֶת עַל־מָתְנָיו֙ בְּתַעְרָ֔הּ וְה֥וּא יָצָ֖א וַתִּפֹּֽל׃ס [2 Samuel 20:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.8/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.609/) 2. **And Joab was girded with his apparel of war that he had put on, and thereon was a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:610` 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. - ← previous: [2 Samuel 20:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.609/) - next →: [2 Samuel 20:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.611/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 20:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.8/)