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title: 2 Samuel 23:6 (JPS 1917) — But the ungodly, they are as thorns thrust away, all of them, for th… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the ungodly, they are as thorns thrust away, all of them, for they cannot be taken with the hand; Who acts: salvation, thorns. 2 Samuel 23:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 23:6 · JPS 1917

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But the ungodly, they are as thorns thrust away, all of them, for they cannot be taken with the hand;

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**Who acts:** salvation, thorns · **What happens:** be, thrust away, not take · **To what, where:** all, salvation

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This is 2 Samuel 23:6 · 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 (salvation, thorns), 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:716
# text = But the ungodly, they are as thorns thrust away, all of them, for they cannot be taken with the hand;
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ungodly	ungodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	thrust	thrust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	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** | present | salvation |  |  |  |  | as thorns | tree rules |
| 2 | **thrust away** | participle · passive | thorns *not said here* | all |  |  |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **take** | can · passive |  | salvation |  |  |  | with the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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וּבְלִיַּ֕עַל כְּק֥וֹץ מֻנָ֖ד כֻּלָּ֑הַם כִּֽי־לֹ֥א בְיָ֖ד יִקָּֽחוּ׃

[2 Samuel 23:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.6/)

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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:716` 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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