--- title: 2 Samuel 24:12 (JPS 1917) — 'Go and speak unto David: Thus saith the LORD: I lay upon thee three… · tree and pragmatics description: 'Go and speak unto David: Thus saith the LORD: I lay upon thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.' Who acts: you, LORD, I. 2 Samuel 24:12 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.768/) [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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/24/) / [24:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.24.12/) / JPS 1 # 2 Samuel 24:12 · JPS 1917 'Go and speak unto David: Thus saith the LORD: I lay upon thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.' **Who acts:** you, LORD, I · **What happens:** go, speak, say, lay, choose, do · **To what, where:** three things, thee, one, thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Samuel 24:12 · 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 (you, LORD, 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:768 # text = 'Go and speak unto David: Thus saith the LORD: I lay upon thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.' 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 speak speak VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 Thus thus ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 15 upon upon ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 obl _ _ 17 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 20 choose choose VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 21 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 20 iobj _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 unto unto ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 34 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | unto David | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD | | | | | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **lay** | present | I | three things | | thee | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme upon thou=Destination | | 5 | **choose** | infinitive | | one of Canaanites | thee | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary one=Theme | | 6 | **do** | may | I | thing | | | | unto thee | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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} הָל֞וֹךְ וְדִבַּרְתָּ֣ אֶל־דָּוִ֗ד כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה שָׁלֹ֕שׁ אָנֹכִ֖י נוֹטֵ֣ל עָלֶ֑יךָ בְּחַר־לְךָ֥ אַֽחַת־מֵהֶ֖ם וְאֶֽעֱשֶׂה־לָּֽךְ׃ [2 Samuel 24:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.24.12/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:768` 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 24:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.767/) - next →: [2 Samuel 24:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.769/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 24:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.24.12/)