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title: 2 Samuel 22:18 (JPS 1917) — He delivered me from mine enemy most strong, from them that hated me… · tree and pragmatics
description: He delivered me from mine enemy most strong, from them that hated me, for they were too mighty for me. Who acts: LORD, enemies. 2 Samuel 22:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 22:18 · JPS 1917

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He delivered me from mine enemy most strong, from them that hated me, for they were too mighty for me.

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**Who acts:** LORD, enemies · **What happens:** deliver, hate, be · **To what, where:** me, enemy

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This is 2 Samuel 22:18 · 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 (LORD, enemies), 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:677
# text = He delivered me from mine enemy most strong, from them that hated me, for they were too mighty for me.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
8	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hated	hate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deliver** | past | LORD | me |  | mine enemy |  | from enemies *= enemy* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from enemy=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **hate** | past |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | enemies *= enemy* |  |  |  |  | for me; mighty *property* | 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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יַצִּילֵ֕נִי מֵאֹיְבִ֖י עָ֑ז מִשֹּׂ֣נְאַ֔י כִּ֥י אָמְצ֖וּ מִמֶּֽנִּי׃

[2 Samuel 22:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.18/)

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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:677` 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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