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title: 2 Samuel 2:28 (JPS 1917) — So Joab blew the horn, and all the people stood still, and pursued a… · tree and pragmatics
description: So Joab blew the horn, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more. Who acts: Joab, people. 2 Samuel 2:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 2:28 · JPS 1917

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So Joab blew the horn, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.

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**Who acts:** Joab, people · **What happens:** blow, stand, pursue, fight · **To what, where:** horn

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This is 2 Samuel 2:28 · 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 (Joab, people), 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:62
# text = So Joab blew the horn, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	no	no	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
22	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
24	any	any	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **blow** | past | Joab | the horn |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient |
| 2 | **stand** | past | all people |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pursue** | past | all people *not said here* |  |  |  | after Israel |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after israel=Theme |
| 4 | **fight** | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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וַיִּתְקַ֤ע יוֹאָב֙ בַּשּׁוֹפָ֔ר וַיַּֽעַמְדוּ֙ כָּל־הָעָ֔ם וְלֹֽא־יִרְדְּפ֥וּ ע֖וֹד אַחֲרֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְלֹֽא־יָסְפ֥וּ ע֖וֹד לְהִלָּחֵֽם׃

[2 Samuel 2:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.2.28/)

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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:62` 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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