--- title: 2 Samuel 21:17 (JPS 1917) — Then the men of David swore unto him, saying: 'Thou shalt go no more… · tree and pragmatics description: Then the men of David swore unto him, saying: 'Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the lamp of Israel.' Who acts: men, Thou. 2 Samuel 21:17 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.653/) [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/) / [21:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.17/) / JPS 2 # 2 Samuel 21:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 Then the men of David swore unto him, saying: 'Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the lamp of Israel.' **Who acts:** men, Thou · **What happens:** swear, say, go, not quench · **To what, where:** battle, lamp · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Samuel 21:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (men, Thou), 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:653 # text = Then the men of David swore unto him, saying: 'Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the lamp of Israel.' 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 swore swear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 unto unto ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 13 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nsubj _ _ 14 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 16 no no ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 18 out out ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 nsubj _ _ 26 quench quench VERB VBP Mood=Sub|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 lamp lamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 33 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: other - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=other | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swear** | past | the men of David | | | | then | unto David | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the men of David *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **go** | shall | Thou | | | battle | | out *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to battle=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **not** **quench** | present | thou | the lamp of Israel | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lamp=Experiencer | 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} וַיַּֽעֲזָר־לוֹ֙ אֲבִישַׁ֣י בֶּן־צְרוּיָ֔ה וַיַּ֥ךְ אֶת־הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֖י וַיְמִיתֵ֑הוּ אָ֣ז נִשְׁבְּעוּ֩ אַנְשֵׁי־דָוִ֨ד ל֜וֹ לֵאמֹ֗ר לֹא־תֵצֵ֨א ע֤וֹד אִתָּ֙נוּ֙ לַמִּלְחָמָ֔ה וְלֹ֥א תְכַבֶּ֖ה אֶת־נֵ֥ר יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃פ [2 Samuel 21:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.17/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.652/) 2. **Then the men of David swore unto him, saying: 'Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the lamp of Israel.'** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:653` 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 21:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.652/) - next →: [2 Samuel 21:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.654/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 21:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.17/)