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title: 2 Samuel 3:8 (JPS 1917) — Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said: 'A… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said: 'Am I a dog's head that belongeth to Judah? Who acts: Abner, I, head. 2 Samuel 3:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 3:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said: 'Am I a dog's head that belongeth to Judah?

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**Who acts:** Abner, I, head · **What happens:** be, say, belong · **To what, where:** head, Judah · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 3:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (Abner, I, head), 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:76
# text = Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said: 'Am I a dog's head that belongeth to Judah?
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	Abner	Abner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wroth	wroth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Ish	ish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bosheth	bosheth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
18	Am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	belongeth	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: disagree
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=disagree, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Abner |  |  |  | then | for the words; wroth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Abner *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | I | a dog's head |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **belong** | present | a dog's head |  | Judah |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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וַיִּחַר֩ לְאַבְנֵ֨ר מְאֹ֜ד עַל־דִּבְרֵ֣י אִֽישׁ־בֹּ֗שֶׁתאִֽישׁ־בֹּ֗שֶׁת וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ הֲרֹ֨אשׁ כֶּ֥לֶב אָנֹ֘כִי֮ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לִֽיהוּדָה֒ הַיּ֨וֹם אֶֽעֱשֶׂה־חֶ֜סֶד עִם־בֵּ֣ית ׀ שָׁא֣וּל אָבִ֗יךָ אֶל־אֶחָיו֙ וְאֶל־מֵ֣רֵעֵ֔הוּ וְלֹ֥א הִמְצִיתִ֖ךָ בְּיַד־דָּוִ֑ד וַתִּפְקֹ֥ד עָלַ֛י עֲוֺ֥ן הָאִשָּׁ֖ה הַיּֽוֹם׃

[2 Samuel 3:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.8/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said: 'Am I a dog's head that belongeth to Judah?**
2. [This day do I show kindness unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, and yet thou chargest me this day with a fault concerning this woman.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.77/)

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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:76` 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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