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title: 2 Samuel 21:19 (JPS 1917) — And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Samuel 21:19 · JPS 1917

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And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Beth-lehemite slew Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

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**Who acts:** war, Elhanan, Gittite · **What happens:** be, slay · **To what, where:** Goliath

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This is 2 Samuel 21:19 · 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 (war, Elhanan, Gittite), 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:655
# text = And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Beth-lehemite slew Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Philistines	philistine	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Gob	Gob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
13	Elhanan	Elhanan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	Jaare	Jaare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
19	oregim	oregim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	Beth	Beth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
23	lehemite	lehemite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
24	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	Goliath	Goliath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Gittite	Gittite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
35	like	like	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	weaver	weaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	's	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	acl:relcl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | war with the Philistines at Gob |  |  | there | again |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **slay** | past | Elhanan | Goliath |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goliath=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | the Gittite *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a weaver's beam | 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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וַתְּהִי־ע֧וֹד הַמִּלְחָמָ֛ה בְּג֖וֹב עִם־פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים וַיַּ֡ךְ אֶלְחָנָן֩ בֶּן־יַעְרֵ֨י אֹרְגִ֜יםיַעְרֵ֨י אֹרְגִ֜ים בֵּ֣ית הַלַּחְמִ֗י בֵּ֣ית הַלַּחְמִ֗י אֵ֚ת גָּלְיָ֣ת הַגִּתִּ֔י וְעֵ֣ץ חֲנִית֔וֹ כִּמְנ֖וֹר אֹרְגִֽים׃ס

[2 Samuel 21:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.19/)

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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:655` 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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