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title: 2 Samuel 24:3 (JPS 1917) — And Joab said unto the king: 'Now the LORD thy God add unto the peop… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Samuel 24:3 · JPS 1917

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And Joab said unto the king: 'Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they may be, a hundredfold, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it; but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?'

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**Who acts:** Joab, LORD, eyes · **What happens:** say, add, be, see, delight · **To what, where:** many hundredfold, hundredfold, thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 24:3 · 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 (Joab, LORD, 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:757
# text = And Joab said unto the king: 'Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they may be, a hundredfold, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it; but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
9	Now	now	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
15	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
21	soever	soever	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	hundredfold	hundredfold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
30	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
38	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
42	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	48	advmod	_	_
43	doth	do	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
44	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	_
48	delight	delight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	51	det	_	_
51	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
52	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
53	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: other
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed form=other, act=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Joab |  |  |  |  | unto the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the LORD |  |  |  | now | unto the people | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive |  | a many hundredfold |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | may | the eyes of my lord | hundredfold |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 5 | **delight** | do-support | my lord |  |  | this thing |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יוֹאָ֜ב אֶל־הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ וְיוֹסֵ֣ף יְהוָה֩ אֱלֹהֶ֨יךָ אֶל־הָעָ֜ם כָּהֵ֤ם ׀ וְכָהֵם֙ מֵאָ֣ה פְעָמִ֔ים וְעֵינֵ֥י אֲדֹנִֽי־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ רֹא֑וֹת וַאדֹנִ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ לָ֥מָּה חָפֵ֖ץ בַּדָּבָ֥ר הַזֶּֽה׃

[2 Samuel 24:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.24.3/)

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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:757` 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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