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title: 2 Samuel 24:10 (JPS 1917) — And David said unto the LORD: 'I have sinned greatly in what I have… · tree and pragmatics
description: And David said unto the LORD: 'I have sinned greatly in what I have done; but now, O LORD, put away, I beseech Thee, the iniquity of Thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.' Who acts: David, I. 2 Samuel 24:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 24:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And David said unto the LORD: 'I have sinned greatly in what I have done; but now, O LORD, put away, I beseech Thee, the iniquity of Thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.'

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**Who acts:** David, I · **What happens:** say, sin, do, put away, beseech · **To what, where:** iniquity, Thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 24:10 · 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 (David, I), 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:766
# text = And David said unto the LORD: 'I have sinned greatly in what I have done; but now, O LORD, put away, I beseech Thee, the iniquity of Thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	David	David	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	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	sinned	sin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
12	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
23	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	vocative	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	beseech	beseech	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
30	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	obj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
38	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
42	very	very	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	foolishly	foolishly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
45	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | David |  |  |  |  | unto the LORD | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sin** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **put away** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the iniquity of Thy servant |  |  | now | LORD *vocative*; away *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent iniquity=Goal |
| 5 | **beseech** | present | I | Thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | foolishly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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וַיַּ֤ךְ לֵב־דָּוִד֙ אֹת֔וֹ אַחֲרֵי־כֵ֖ן סָפַ֣ר אֶת־הָעָ֑םס וַיֹּ֨אמֶר דָּוִ֜ד אֶל־יְהוָ֗ה חָטָ֤אתִי מְאֹד֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשִׂ֔יתִי וְעַתָּ֣ה יְהוָ֔ה הַֽעֲבֶר־נָא֙ אֶת־עֲוֺ֣ן עַבְדְּךָ֔ כִּ֥י נִסְכַּ֖לְתִּי מְאֹֽד׃

[2 Samuel 24:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.24.10/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.765/)
2. **And David said unto the LORD: 'I have sinned greatly in what I have done; but now, O LORD, put away, I beseech Thee, the iniquity of Thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.'**

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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:766` 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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