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title: 2 Samuel 21:20 (JPS 1917) — And there was again war at Gath, where was a champion, that had on e… · tree and pragmatics
description: And there was again war at Gath, where was a champion, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant. Who acts: war, champion. 2 Samuel 21:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 21:20 · JPS 1917

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And there was again war at Gath, where was a champion, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.

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**Who acts:** war, champion · **What happens:** be, have, bear · **To what, where:** champion, six fingers, hand, war

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This is 2 Samuel 21:20 · 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, champion), 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:656
# text = And there was again war at Gath, where was a champion, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.
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	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Gath	Gath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	champion	champion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	acl:relcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
26	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	appos	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	also	also	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	.	.	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 | **be** | past | war at Gath |  |  | there | again |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a champion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | a champion | six fingers and six toes on every foot |  | every hand |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient |
| 4 | **bear** | past · passive |  | war |  |  |  | to the giant | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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־ע֥וֹד מִלְחָמָ֖ה בְּגַ֑ת וַיְהִ֣י ׀ אִ֣ישׁ מָד֗וֹן וְאֶצְבְּעֹ֣ת יָדָיו֩ וְאֶצְבְּעֹ֨ת רַגְלָ֜יו שֵׁ֣שׁ וָשֵׁ֗שׁ עֶשְׂרִ֤ים וְאַרְבַּע֙ מִסְפָּ֔ר וְגַם־ה֖וּא יֻלַּ֥ד לְהָרָפָֽה׃

[2 Samuel 21:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.20/)

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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:656` 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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