---
title: 2 Samuel 2:31 (JPS 1917) — But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, even of Abner's m… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, even of Abner's men — three hundred and threescore men died. Who acts: servants, hundred men. 2 Samuel 2:31 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.65/)

<!-- 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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/2/) / [2:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.2.31/) / JPS 1

# 2 Samuel 2:31 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, even of Abner's men — three hundred and threescore men died.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** servants, hundred men · **What happens:** smite, die

<!-- .vabout -->
This is 2 Samuel 2:31 · 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 (servants, hundred men), 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:65
# text = But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, even of Abner's men — three hundred and threescore men died.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	smitten	smite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	Abner	Abner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	threescore	threescore	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	_
21	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smite** | past · perfect | the servants of David |  |  |  |  | of Benjamin; of Abner's men | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **die** | past | hundred men |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

<!-- .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 -->
וְעַבְדֵ֣י דָוִ֗ד הִכּוּ֙ מִבִּנְיָמִ֔ן וּבְאַנְשֵׁ֖י אַבְנֵ֑ר שְׁלֹשׁ־מֵא֧וֹת וְשִׁשִּׁ֛ים אִ֖ישׁ מֵֽתוּ׃

[2 Samuel 2:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.2.31/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:65` 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 2:30 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.64/)
- next →: [2 Samuel 2:32 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.66/)
- ↑ back to [2 Samuel 2:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.2.31/)