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title: 2 Samuel 24:18 (JPS 1917) — And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him: 'Go up, rear an a… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him: 'Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.' Who acts: Gad. 2 Samuel 24:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 24:18 · JPS 1917

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And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him: 'Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.'

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**Who acts:** Gad · **What happens:** come, say, go up, rear · **To what, where:** David, altar, threshing floor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 24:18 · 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 (Gad), 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:774
# text = And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him: 'Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Gad	Gad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
16	up	up	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	rear	rear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	threshing	threshing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
28	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Araunah	Araunah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Jebusite	Jebusite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Gad |  |  | David | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to david=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Gad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto David | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go up** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **rear** | infinitive |  | a altar |  | the threshing floor of Araunah |  | unto the LORD | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent altar=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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וַיָּבֹא־גָ֥ד אֶל־דָּוִ֖ד בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֑וּא וַיֹּ֣אמֶר ל֗וֹ עֲלֵה֙ הָקֵ֤ם לַֽיהוָה֙ מִזְבֵּ֔חַ בְּגֹ֖רֶן אֲרַ֥וְנָה הַיְבֻסִֽי׃

[2 Samuel 24:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.24.18/)

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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:774` 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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