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title: 2 Samuel 2:32 (JPS 1917) — And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his fath… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Beth-lehem. Who acts: men, sepulchre. 2 Samuel 2:32 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 2:32 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Beth-lehem.

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**Who acts:** men, sepulchre · **What happens:** take up, bury, be · **To what, where:** Asahel, sepulchre, Beth lehem

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This is 2 Samuel 2:32 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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, sepulchre), 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:66
# text = And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Beth-lehem.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	Asahel	Asahel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sepulchre	sepulchre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	Beth	Beth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	lehem	lehem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	acl:relcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **take up** | past | men *= man* |  | Asahel |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument asahel=Destination |
| 2 | **bury** | past | men *= man* *not said here* | Asahel |  | the sepulchre of Asahel's father |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in sepulchre=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | the sepulchre of Asahel's father |  |  | Beth lehem |  |  | 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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וַיִּשְׂאוּ֙ אֶת־עֲשָׂהאֵ֔ל וַֽיִּקְבְּרֻ֙הוּ֙ בְּקֶ֣בֶר אָבִ֔יו אֲשֶׁ֖ר בֵּ֣ית לָ֑חֶם בֵּ֣ית לָ֑חֶם וַיֵּלְכ֣וּ כָל־הַלַּ֗יְלָה יוֹאָב֙ וַֽאֲנָשָׁ֔יו וַיֵּאֹ֥ר לָהֶ֖ם בְּחֶבְרֽוֹן׃

[2 Samuel 2:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.2.32/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Beth-lehem.**
2. [And Joab and his men went all night, and the day broke upon them at Hebron.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.67/)

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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:66` 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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