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title: 2 Samuel 22:28 (JPS 1917) — And the afflicted people Thou dost save; but Thine eyes are upon the… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the afflicted people Thou dost save; but Thine eyes are upon the haughty, that Thou mayest humble them. Who acts: Thou, eyes. 2 Samuel 22:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 22:28 · JPS 1917

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And the afflicted people Thou dost save; but Thine eyes are upon the haughty, that Thou mayest humble them.

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**Who acts:** Thou, eyes · **What happens:** afflict, save, be, humble · **To what, where:** afflicted people, eyes

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This is 2 Samuel 22:28 · 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 (Thou, eyes), 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:687
# text = And the afflicted people Thou dost save; but Thine eyes are upon the haughty, that Thou mayest humble them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	afflicted	afflict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	amod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
5	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
6	dost	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	haughty	haughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
19	mayest	may	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	humble	humble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **afflict** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **save** | present · do-support | Thou | the afflicted people |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | Thine eyes |  |  |  |  | haughty *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **humble** | may | Thou | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |

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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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וְאֶת־עַ֥ם עָנִ֖י תּוֹשִׁ֑יעַ וְעֵינֶ֖יךָ עַל־רָמִ֥ים תַּשְׁפִּֽיל׃

[2 Samuel 22:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.28/)

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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:687` 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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