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title: 2 Samuel 20:22 (JPS 1917) — And he blew the horn, and they were dispersed from the city, every m… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he blew the horn, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Who acts: Joab. 2 Samuel 20:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 20:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 4

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And he blew the horn, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent.

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**Who acts:** Joab · **What happens:** blow, disperse · **To what, where:** horn, women, city

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This is 2 Samuel 20:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 4 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), 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:628
# text = And he blew the horn, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|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	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	dispersed	disperse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **disperse** | past · passive |  | women *= woman* |  | the city |  | every man to Joab's tent *obl:unmarked* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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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וַתָּבוֹא֩ הָאִשָּׁ֨ה אֶל־כָּל־הָעָ֜ם בְּחָכְמָתָ֗הּ וַֽיִּכְרְת֞וּ אֶת־רֹ֨אשׁ שֶׁ֤בַע בֶּן־בִּכְרִי֙ וַיַּשְׁלִ֣כוּ אֶל־יוֹאָ֔ב וַיִּתְקַע֙ בַּשּׁוֹפָ֔ר וַיָּפֻ֥צוּ מֵֽעַל־הָעִ֖יר אִ֣ישׁ לְאֹהָלָ֑יו וְיוֹאָ֛ב שָׁ֥ב יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם אֶל־הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס

[2 Samuel 20:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.22/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.626/)
2. [And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.627/)
3. **And he blew the horn, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent.**
4. [And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.629/)

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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:628` 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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