--- title: 2 Samuel 21:16 (JPS 1917) — And Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whos… · tree and pragmatics description: And Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with new armour, thought to have slain David. Who acts: Ishbibenob, weight. 2 Samuel 21:16 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.651/) [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/) / [21:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.16/) / JPS 1 # 2 Samuel 21:16 · JPS 1917 And Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with new armour, thought to have slain David. **Who acts:** Ishbibenob, weight · **What happens:** be, gird, think, slay · **To what, where:** hundred shekels, weight, Ishbibenob, David This is 2 Samuel 21:16 · 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 (Ishbibenob, weight), 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:651 # text = And Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with new armour, thought to have slain David. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 2 Ishbibenob Ishbibenob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 acl:relcl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 compound _ _ 20 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 shekels shekel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 acl:relcl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 brass brass NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 girded gird VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 advcl _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 armour armour NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 36 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 aux _ _ 37 slain slay VERB VBN VerbForm=Part 34 xcomp _ _ 38 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Ishbibenob | | | | | of the sons; of the giant | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | past | the weight of the weight of the weight's spear's spear *not said here* | hundred shekels | | weight | | of brass | tree rules | | 3 | **gird** | gerund · passive | | Ishbibenob | | | | with new armour | tree rules | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Ishbibenob | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **slay** | to-infinitive · perfect | Ishbibenob *not said here* | David | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent david=Patient | 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} וְיִשְׁבִּ֨י בְּנֹ֜ב יִשְׁבִּ֨י בְּנֹ֜ב אֲשֶׁ֣ר ׀ בִּילִידֵ֣י הָרָפָ֗ה וּמִשְׁקַ֤ל קֵינוֹ֙ שְׁלֹ֤שׁ מֵאוֹת֙ מִשְׁקַ֣ל נְחֹ֔שֶׁת וְה֖וּא חָג֣וּר חֲדָשָׁ֑ה וַיֹּ֖אמֶר לְהַכּ֥וֹת אֶת־דָּוִֽד׃ [2 Samuel 21:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:651` 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 21:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.650/) - next →: [2 Samuel 21:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.652/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 21:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.16/)