--- title: 2 Samuel 3:39 (JPS 1917) — And I am this day weak, and just anointed king; and these men the so… · tree and pragmatics description: And I am this day weak, and just anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me; the LORD reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.' Who acts: I, men, LORD. 2 Samuel 3:39 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.111/) [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/) / [3:39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.39/) / JPS 1 # 2 Samuel 3:39 · JPS 1917 And I am this day weak, and just anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me; the LORD reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.' **Who acts:** I, men, LORD · **What happens:** be, anoint, reward, accord · **To what, where:** king, evildoer This is 2 Samuel 3:39 · 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 (I, men, LORD), 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:111 # text = And I am this day weak, and just anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me; the LORD reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 just just ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 anointed anoint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 11 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 xcomp _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 14 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 15 det _ _ 15 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 appos _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Zeruiah Zeruiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 too too ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 reward reward VERB VBP Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 evildoer evildoer NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 case _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 31 fixed _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 wickedness wickedness NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 36 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | I | | | | day | weak *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **anoint** | participle | I *not said here* | king | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | this men | | | | | for me; hard *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **reward** | present | the LORD | the evildoer | | | | accord king's wickedness | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent evildoer=Recipient | | 5 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | 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} וְאָנֹכִ֨י הַיּ֥וֹם רַךְ֙ וּמָשׁ֣וּחַ מֶ֔לֶךְ וְהָאֲנָשִׁ֥ים הָאֵ֛לֶּה בְּנֵ֥י צְרוּיָ֖ה קָשִׁ֣ים מִמֶּ֑נִּי יְשַׁלֵּ֧ם יְהוָ֛ה לְעֹשֵׂ֥ה הָרָעָ֖ה כְּרָעָתֽוֹ׃פ [2 Samuel 3:39: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.39/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:111` 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 3:38 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.110/) - next →: [2 Samuel 4:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.112/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 3:39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.39/)