--- title: 2 Samuel 21:5 (JPS 1917) — And they said unto the king: 'The man that consumed us, and that dev… · tree and pragmatics description: And they said unto the king: 'The man that consumed us, and that devised against us, so that we have been destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel, Who acts: Gibeonites, man, that. 2 Samuel 21:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.639/) [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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/21/) / [21:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.5/) / JPS 1 # 2 Samuel 21:5 · JPS 1917 And they said unto the king: 'The man that consumed us, and that devised against us, so that we have been destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel, **Who acts:** Gibeonites, man, that · **What happens:** say, consume, devise, destroy, remaining · **To what, where:** man, us, we, any · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Samuel 21:5 · 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 (Gibeonites, man, that), 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:639 # text = And they said unto the king: 'The man that consumed us, and that devised against us, so that we have been destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel, 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 9 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 consumed consume VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 devised devise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 18 against against ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 26 mark _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 fixed _ _ 23 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 destroyed destroy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 advcl _ _ 27 from from SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 28 remaining remaining VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 any any PRON DT PronType=Ind 28 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 borders border NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Gibeonites *= gibeonite* | the man | | | | unto the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | | 2 | **consume** | past | the man | us | | | | | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Asset | | 3 | **devise** | past | that | | | | | against us | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **destroy** | present · perfect · passive | | we | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **remaining** | gerund | | | | any | | | tree rules | 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} וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ אֶל־הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ הָאִישׁ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר כִּלָּ֔נוּ וַאֲשֶׁ֖ר דִּמָּה־לָ֑נוּ נִשְׁמַ֕דְנוּ מֵֽהִתְיַצֵּ֖ב בְּכָל־גְּבֻ֥ל יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ [2 Samuel 21:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.5/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:639` 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. - ← previous: [2 Samuel 21:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.638/) - next →: [2 Samuel 21:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.640/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 21:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.5/)