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title: 2 Samuel 24:9 (JPS 1917) — And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people unto the kin… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people unto the king; and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men. Who acts: Joab, thousand valiant men, men. 2 Samuel 24:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree a
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# 2 Samuel 24:9 · JPS 1917

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And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people unto the king; and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

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**Who acts:** Joab, thousand valiant men, men · **What happens:** give up, be, draw, sum, number · **To what, where:** sum, Israel, sword, thousand men, numbering, people

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This is 2 Samuel 24:9 · 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, thousand valiant men, men), 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:764
# text = And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people unto the king; and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	numbering	numbering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	compound	_	_
23	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	compound	_	_
24	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
25	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
38	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	compound	_	_
39	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	compound	_	_
40	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
41	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **give up** | past | Joab | the sum of the numbering of the people unto the king |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Source |
| 2 | **be** | past | thousand valiant men |  |  | Israel; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in israel=Location |
| 3 | **draw** | past | thousand valiant men | the sword |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the men of Judah | thousand men |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sum** |  |  | the numbering of the people unto the king |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **number** |  |  | the people unto the king |  |  |  |  | nom numbering «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וַיִּתֵּ֥ן יוֹאָ֛ב אֶת־מִסְפַּ֥ר מִפְקַד־הָעָ֖ם אֶל־הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וַתְּהִ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֡ל שְׁמֹנֶה֩ מֵא֨וֹת אֶ֤לֶף אִֽישׁ־חַ֙יִל֙ שֹׁ֣לֵֽף חֶ֔רֶב וְאִ֣ישׁ יְהוּדָ֔ה חֲמֵשׁ־מֵא֥וֹת אֶ֖לֶף אִֽישׁ׃

[2 Samuel 24:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.24.9/)

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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:764` 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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