---
title: 2 Samuel 20:20 (JPS 1917) — And Joab answered and said: 'Far be it, far be it from me, that I sh… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Joab answered and said: 'Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy. Who acts: Joab, inheritance, I. 2 Samuel 20:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.624/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [20:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.20/) / JPS 1

# 2 Samuel 20:20 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
And Joab answered and said: 'Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Joab, inheritance, I · **What happens:** answer, say, be, swallow up, destroy · **To what, where:** matter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is 2 Samuel 20:20 · 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, inheritance, 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:624
# text = And Joab answered and said: 'Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	parataxis	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	csubj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Joab |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Joab *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | inheritance |  |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | infinitive |  | matter |  |  |  | from me; far *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **swallow up** | should | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **destroy** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
וַיַּ֥עַן יוֹאָ֖ב וַיֹּאמַ֑ר חָלִ֤ילָה חָלִ֙ילָה֙ לִ֔י אִם־אֲבַלַּ֖ע וְאִם־אַשְׁחִֽית׃

[2 Samuel 20:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.20/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:624` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [2 Samuel 20:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.623/)
- next →: [2 Samuel 20:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.625/)
- ↑ back to [2 Samuel 20:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.20/)