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title: 2 Samuel 20:16 (JPS 1917) — Then cried a wise woman out of the city: 'Hear, hear; say, I pray yo… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Samuel 20:16 · JPS 1917

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Then cried a wise woman out of the city: 'Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab: Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.'

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**Who acts:** wise woman, I · **What happens:** cry, hear, say, pray, come, speak · **To what, where:** city, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 20:16 · 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 (wise woman, I), 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:620
# text = Then cried a wise woman out of the city: 'Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab: Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
26	near	near	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
36	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | a wise woman |  |  | the city | then |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out city=Location |
| 2 | **hear** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **hear** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | unto Joab | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pray** | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | hither, near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **speak** *speech: other* | may | I |  |  |  |  | with thee | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with thou=Co-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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וַתִּקְרָ֛א אִשָּׁ֥ה חֲכָמָ֖ה מִן־הָעִ֑יר שִׁמְע֤וּ שִׁמְעוּ֙ אִמְרוּ־נָ֣א אֶל־יוֹאָ֔ב קְרַ֣ב עַד־הֵ֔נָּה וַאֲדַבְּרָ֖ה אֵלֶֽיךָ׃

[2 Samuel 20:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.16/)

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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:620` 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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