--- title: 2 Samuel 1:9 (JPS 1917) — And he said unto me: Stand, I pray thee, beside me, and slay me, for… · tree and pragmatics description: And he said unto me: Stand, I pray thee, beside me, and slay me, for the agony hath taken hold of me; because my life is just yet in me. Who acts: man, I, agony, life. 2 Samuel 1:9 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.11/) [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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/1/) / [1:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.1.9/) / JPS 1 # 2 Samuel 1:9 · JPS 1917 And he said unto me: Stand, I pray thee, beside me, and slay me, for the agony hath taken hold of me; because my life is just yet in me. **Who acts:** man, I, agony, life · **What happens:** say, stand, pray, slay, take, be · **To what, where:** thee, me, hold · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Samuel 1:9 · 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 (man, I, agony, life), 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:11 # text = And he said unto me: Stand, I pray thee, beside me, and slay me, for the agony hath taken hold of me; because my life is just yet in me. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 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 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 11 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 beside beside ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 slay slay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 for for SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 agony agony NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 advcl _ _ 25 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nmod _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 29 because because SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 33 just just ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 yet yet ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 advcl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man | | | | | unto me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **stand** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **pray** | present | I | thee | | | | beside me | tree rules | | 4 | **slay** | infinitive | | me | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | | 5 | **take** | present · perfect | the agony | hold of me | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | my life | | | | yet | in me | tree rules | | 7 | **hold** | | | me | | | | | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient | 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} וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֗י עֲמָד־נָ֤א עָלַי֙ וּמֹ֣תְתֵ֔נִי כִּ֥י אֲחָזַ֖נִי הַשָּׁבָ֑ץ כִּֽי־כָל־ע֥וֹד נַפְשִׁ֖י בִּֽי׃ [2 Samuel 1:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.1.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:11` 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 1:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.10/) - next →: [2 Samuel 1:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.12/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 1:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.1.9/)