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title: 2 Samuel 24:14 (JPS 1917) — And David said unto Gad: 'I am in a great strait; let us fall now in… · tree and pragmatics
description: And David said unto Gad: 'I am in a great strait; let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for His mercies are great; and let me not fall into the hand of man.' Who acts: David, I, us, mercies. 2 Samuel 24:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 24:14 · JPS 1917

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And David said unto Gad: 'I am in a great strait; let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for His mercies are great; and let me not fall into the hand of man.'

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**Who acts:** David, I, us, mercies, me · **What happens:** say, be, let, fall, not fall · **To what, where:** great strait, us, hand, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 24:14 · 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 (David, I, us, mercies), 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:770
# text = And David said unto Gad: 'I am in a great strait; let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for His mercies are great; and let me not fall into the hand of man.'
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	_	5	case	_	_
5	Gad	gad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
9	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	strait	strait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
16	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
26	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	mercies	mercy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
43	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | David |  |  |  |  | unto Gad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  | a great strait |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  | now | into the hand of the LORD *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result |
| 5 | **is** | present | David's mercies |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **let** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **fall** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the hand of man *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result |

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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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וַיֹּ֧אמֶר דָּוִ֛ד אֶל־גָּ֖ד צַר־לִ֣י מְאֹ֑ד נִפְּלָה־נָּ֤א בְיַד־יְהוָה֙ כִּֽי־רַבִּ֣ים רַֽחֲמָ֔יו וּבְיַד־אָדָ֖ם אַל־אֶפֹּֽלָה׃

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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:770` 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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