--- title: 2 Samuel 23:17 (JPS 1917) — These things did the three mighty men. · tree and pragmatics description: These things did the three mighty men. Who acts: things. 2 Samuel 23:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.729/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [2 Samuel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/) / [chapter 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/23/) / [23:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.17/) / JPS 2 # 2 Samuel 23:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 These things did the three mighty men. **Who acts:** things · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** three mighty men This is 2 Samuel 23:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (things), 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:729 # text = These things did the three mighty men. 1 These this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 8 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | this things | the three mighty men | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality | 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} וַיֹּ֡אמֶר חָלִילָה֩ לִּ֨י יְהוָ֜ה מֵעֲשֹׂ֣תִי זֹ֗את הֲדַ֤ם הָֽאֲנָשִׁים֙ הַהֹלְכִ֣ים בְּנַפְשׁוֹתָ֔ם וְלֹ֥א אָבָ֖ה לִשְׁתּוֹתָ֑ם אֵ֣לֶּה עָשׂ֔וּ שְׁלֹ֖שֶׁת הַגִּבֹּרִֽים׃ס [2 Samuel 23:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.17/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [And he said: 'Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this; shall I drink the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives?' therefore he would not drink it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.728/) 2. **These things did the three mighty men.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:729` 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. - ← previous: [2 Samuel 23:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.728/) - next →: [2 Samuel 23:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.730/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 23:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.17/)