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title: 2 Samuel 19:33 — Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old; and he… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old; and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man. Who acts: Barzillai. 2 Samuel 19:33 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 19:33 שְׁמוּאֵל ב

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**Who acts:** Barzillai · **What happens:** be, provide, lie · **To what, where:** aged man, king, Mahanaim, great man

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This is 2 Samuel 19:33 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — Barzillai — and what happens in the verse to aged man, king, Mahanaim, great man, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 24 chapters of 2 Samuel on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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וּבַרְזִלַּי֙ זָקֵ֣ן מְאֹ֔ד בֶּן־שְׁמֹנִ֖ים שָׁנָ֑ה וְהֽוּא־כִלְכַּ֤ל אֶת־הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ בְּשִׁיבָת֣וֹ בְמַחֲנַ֔יִם כִּֽי־אִ֛ישׁ גָּד֥וֹל ה֖וּא מְאֹֽד׃

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[Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old; and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.588/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:2SA:520
# text = וּבַרְזִלַּי֙ זָקֵ֣ן מְאֹ֔ד בֶּן־שְׁמֹנִ֖ים שָׁנָ֑ה וְהֽוּא־כִלְכַּ֤ל אֶת־הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ בְּשִׁיבָת֣וֹ בְמַחֲנַ֔יִם כִּֽי־אִ֛ישׁ גָּד֥וֹל ה֖וּא מְאֹֽד׃
# verse = 2SA.19.33
1-2	וּבַרְזִלַּי֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	3	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=2SA_19:33!1|MId=o100190330011|Strong=2050b
2	בַרְזִלַּי֙	בַּרְזִלַּי	PROPN	_	_	3	nsubj	_	Gloss=Barzillai|Ref=2SA_19:33!1|MId=o100190330012|Strong=1271
3	זָקֵ֣ן	זָקֵן	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=he.was.old|Ref=2SA_19:33!2|MId=o100190330021|Strong=2204|Frame=A0:100190330012;|Type=qatal
4	מְאֹ֔ד	מְאֹד	ADV	_	_	3	advmod	_	Gloss=very|Ref=2SA_19:33!3|MId=o100190330031|Strong=3966
5	בֶּן־	בֵּן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	Gloss=a.son|Ref=2SA_19:33!4|MId=o100190330041|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No
6	שְׁמֹנִ֖ים	שְׁמֹנֶה	NUM	_	Number=Plur	7	nummod	_	Gloss=of.eighty|Ref=2SA_19:33!5|MId=o100190330051|Strong=8084|Type=cardinal_number
7	שָׁנָ֑ה	שָׁנָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	5	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=year[s]|Ref=2SA_19:33!6|MId=o100190330061|Strong=8141
8-9	וְהֽוּא־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	10	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=2SA_19:33!7|MId=o100190330071|Strong=2050b
9	הֽוּא־	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	Gloss=he|Ref=2SA_19:33!7|MId=o100190330072|Strong=1931|Type=personal
10	כִלְכַּ֤ל	כּוּל	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PILPEL|Number=Sing|Person=3	3	conj	_	Gloss=he.had.supplied|Ref=2SA_19:33!8|MId=o100190330081|Strong=3557|Frame=A0:100190330072;A1:100190330102;|Type=qatal
11	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	13	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=2SA_19:33!9|MId=o100190330091|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No
12-13	הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	13	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=2SA_19:33!10|MId=o100190330101|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
13	מֶּ֙לֶךְ֙	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	10	obj	_	Gloss=king|Ref=2SA_19:33!10|MId=o100190330102|Strong=4428
14-16	בְּשִׁיבָת֣וֹ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
14	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	15	case	_	Gloss=in|Ref=2SA_19:33!11|MId=o100190330111|Strong=0871a
15	שִׁיבָת	שִׁיבָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Gloss=dwelling|Ref=2SA_19:33!11|MId=o100190330112|Strong=7871
16	֣וֹ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=his|Ref=2SA_19:33!11|MId=o100190330113|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
17-18	בְמַחֲנַ֔יִם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
17	בְ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	18	case	_	Gloss=in|Ref=2SA_19:33!12|MId=o100190330121|Strong=0871a
18	מַחֲנַ֔יִם	מַחֲנַיִם	PROPN	_	_	15	nmod	_	Gloss=Mahanaim|Ref=2SA_19:33!12|MId=o100190330122|Strong=4266
19	כִּֽי־	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	20	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=2SA_19:33!13|MId=o100190330131|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No
20	אִ֛ישׁ	אִישׁ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	Gloss=[was].a.man|Ref=2SA_19:33!14|MId=o100190330141|Strong=0376
21	גָּד֥וֹל	גָּדוֹל	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	20	amod	_	Gloss=great|Ref=2SA_19:33!15|MId=o100190330151|Strong=1419|Type=adjective
22	ה֖וּא	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	Gloss=he|Ref=2SA_19:33!16|MId=o100190330161|Strong=1931|Type=personal
23	מְאֹֽד	מְאֹד	ADV	_	_	20	advmod	_	Gloss=very|Ref=2SA_19:33!17|MId=o100190330171|Strong=3966|SpaceAfter=No
24	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	23	punct	_	Ref=2SA_19:33!17
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| זָקֵן *he was old* | qatal · qal | בַרְזִלַּי *Barzillai* |  |  |  |
| כִלְכַּל *he had supplied* | qatal · pilpel | הֽוּא־ *he* | מֶּלֶךְ *king* |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos}

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וּבַרְזִלַי סִיב לַחֲדָא בַּר תַּמְנָן שְׁנִין וְהוּא סוֹבַר יַת מַלְכָּא בְּמִיתְבֵיהּ בְמַחֲנַיִם אֲרֵי גְבַר רַב הוּא לַחֲדָא:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old; and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.588/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:2SA:520`.

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