--- title: 2 Samuel 3:25 (JPS 1917) — Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and… · tree and pragmatics description: Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.' Who acts: Thou, Abner. 2 Samuel 3:25 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.96/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/3/) / [3:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.25/) / JPS 1 # 2 Samuel 3:25 · JPS 1917 Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.' **Who acts:** Thou, Abner · **What happens:** know, come, deceive, do · **To what, where:** Abner, thee, going, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Samuel 3:25 · 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 (Thou, Abner), 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:96 # text = Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.' 1 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 2 nsubj _ _ 2 knowest know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Abner Abner PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Ner Ner PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 deceive deceive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 14 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 19 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 going go NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 out out ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 coming come NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 30 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 29 obj _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 obj _ _ 32 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 33 nsubj _ _ 33 doest do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 35 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present | Thou | Abner | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | past | Abner | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **deceive** | to-infinitive | Abner *not said here* | thee | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | | 4 | **know** | to-infinitive | Abner *not said here* | thy going and thy coming | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer go=Stimulus | | 5 | **know** | to-infinitive | Abner *not said here* | all | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus | | 6 | **do** | present | thou | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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} יָדַ֙עְתָּ֙ אֶת־אַבְנֵ֣ר בֶּן־נֵ֔ר כִּ֥י לְפַתֹּתְךָ֖ בָּ֑א וְלָדַ֜עַת אֶת־מוֹצָֽאֲךָ֙ וְאֶת־מ֣וֹבָאֶ֔ךָ וְלָדַ֕עַת אֵ֛ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֥ר אַתָּ֖ה עֹשֶֽׂה׃ [2 Samuel 3:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.25/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:96` 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 3:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.95/) - next →: [2 Samuel 3:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.97/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 3:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.25/)