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title: 2 Samuel 20:26 (JPS 1917) — and Ira also the Jairite was chief minister unto David. · tree and pragmatics
description: and Ira also the Jairite was chief minister unto David. Who acts: Jairite. 2 Samuel 20:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 20:26 · JPS 1917

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and Ira also the Jairite was chief minister unto David.

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**Who acts:** Jairite · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** chief minister

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This is 2 Samuel 20:26 · 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 (Jairite), 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:633
# text = and Ira also the Jairite was chief minister unto David.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Ira	Ira	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Jairite	Jairite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is a** | past | the Jairite and Ira | chief minister |  |  |  | unto David | tree rules |

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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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וְגַ֗ם עִירָא֙ הַיָּ֣אִרִ֔י הָיָ֥ה כֹהֵ֖ן לְדָוִֽד׃ס

[2 Samuel 20:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.26/)

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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:633` 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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