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title: 2 Samuel 20:11 (JPS 1917) — And there stood by him one of Joab's young men, and said: 'He that f… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Samuel 20:11 · JPS 1917

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And there stood by him one of Joab's young men, and said: 'He that favoureth Joab, and he that is for David let him follow Joab.'

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**Who acts:** one, Joab · **What happens:** stand, say, favour, be, let, follow · **To what, where:** Joab · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 20:11 · 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 (one, Joab), 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:614
# text = And there stood by him one of Joab's young men, and said: 'He that favoureth Joab, and he that is for David let him follow Joab.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	_	3	expl	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
17	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	dislocated	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	favoureth	favour	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	conj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **stand** | past | one of Joab's young men |  |  | there |  | by Joab | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | one of Joab's young men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **favour** | present |  | Joab |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for David | tree rules |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  | Joab |  |  |  | Joab *dislocated* | tree rules |
| 6 | **follow** | infinitive | Joab *not said here* | Joab |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joab=Theme |

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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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וְאִישׁ֙ עָמַ֣ד עָלָ֔יו מִֽנַּעֲרֵ֖י יוֹאָ֑ב וַיֹּ֗אמֶר מִי֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר חָפֵ֧ץ בְּיוֹאָ֛ב וּמִ֥י אֲשֶׁר־לְדָוִ֖ד אַחֲרֵ֥י יוֹאָֽב׃

[2 Samuel 20:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.11/)

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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:614` 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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