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title: 2 Samuel 3:2 (JPS 1917) — And unto David were sons born in Hebron; and his first-born was Amno… · tree and pragmatics
description: And unto David were sons born in Hebron; and his first-born was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; Who acts: first born. 2 Samuel 3:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 3:2 · JPS 1917

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And unto David were sons born in Hebron; and his first-born was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;

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**Who acts:** first born · **What happens:** be, bear · **To what, where:** sons, Hebron, Amnon

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This is 2 Samuel 3:2 · 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 (first born), 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:69
# text = And unto David were sons born in Hebron; and his first-born was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Hebron	Hebron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	born	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	Amnon	Amnon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Ahinoam	Ahinoam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Jezreelitess	Jezreelitess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	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 | **is a** | past |  | sons and Amnon |  |  |  | unto David | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | participle |  | sons and Amnon *not said here* |  | Hebron |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past | David's first born | Amnon |  |  |  | of Ahinoam | 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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וַיִּוָּלְד֧וּלְדָוִ֛ד בָּנִ֖ים בְּחֶבְר֑וֹן וַיְהִ֤י בְכוֹרוֹ֙ אַמְנ֔וֹן לַאֲחִינֹ֖עַם הַיִּזְרְעֵאלִֽת׃

[2 Samuel 3:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.2/)

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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:69` 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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