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title: 2 Samuel 21:18 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass after this, that there was again war with the Ph… · tree and pragmatics
description: And it came to pass after this, that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; then Sibbecai the Hushathite slew Saph, who was of the sons of the giant. Who acts: lamp, war, Sibbecai, Saph. 2 Samuel 21:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 21:18 · JPS 1917

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And it came to pass after this, that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; then Sibbecai the Hushathite slew Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.

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**Who acts:** lamp, war, Sibbecai, Saph · **What happens:** come, pass, be, slay · **To what, where:** Saph

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This is 2 Samuel 21:18 · 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 (lamp, war, Sibbecai, Saph), 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:654
# text = And it came to pass after this, that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; then Sibbecai the Hushathite slew Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Philistines	philistine	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Gob	Gob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
21	Sibbecai	Sibbecai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Hushathite	Hushathite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
24	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	Saph	Saph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	acl:relcl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **come** | past | lamp |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | lamp *not said here* |  |  |  | after this |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past | war with the Philistines at Gob |  |  | there | again |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **slay** | past | Sibbecai | Saph |  |  | then |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saph=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | Saph |  |  |  |  | of the sons; of the giant | 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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וַֽיְהִי֙ אַֽחֲרֵי־כֵ֔ן וַתְּהִי־ע֧וֹד הַמִּלְחָמָ֛ה בְּג֖וֹב עִם־פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים אָ֣ז הִכָּ֗ה סִבְּכַי֙ הַחֻ֣שָׁתִ֔י אֶת־סַ֕ף אֲשֶׁ֖ר בִּילִדֵ֥י הָרָפָֽה׃פ

[2 Samuel 21:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.18/)

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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:654` 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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