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title: 2 Samuel 20:22 (JPS 1917) — And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king. · tree and pragmatics
description: And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king. 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 4 of 4

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And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.

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**Who acts:** Joab · **What happens:** return · **To what, where:** Jerusalem

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This is 2 Samuel 20:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 4 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:629
# text = And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	.	.	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 | **return** | past | Joab |  | Jerusalem |  |  | unto the king | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to jerusalem=Result |

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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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.628/)
4. **And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.**

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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:629` 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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