--- title: 2 Samuel 4:9 (JPS 1917) — And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon… · tree and pragmatics description: And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them: 'As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity, Who acts: David, LORD. 2 Samuel 4:9 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.122/) [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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/4/) / [4:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.4.9/) / JPS 1 # 2 Samuel 4:9 · JPS 1917 And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them: 'As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity, **Who acts:** David, LORD · **What happens:** answer, say, live, redeem · **To what, where:** Rechab, soul, adversity · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Samuel 4:9 · 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 (David, 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:122 # text = And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them: 'As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity, 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Rechab Rechab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 Baanah Baanah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 appos _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Rimmon Rimmon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Beerothite Beerothite PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 unto unto ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 22 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 23 As as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 liveth live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 29 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 redeemed redeem VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 advcl:relcl _ _ 31 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 out out ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 36 det _ _ 36 adversity adversity NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: other - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=other | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | David | | Rechab and Baanah | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rechab=Eventuality | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | David *not said here* | | | | | unto Baanah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **live** | present | the LORD | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **redeem** | present · perfect | the LORD | my soul | | all adversity | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent soul=Theme out adversity=Source | 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} וַיַּ֨עַן דָּוִ֜ד אֶת־רֵכָ֣ב ׀ וְאֶת־בַּעֲנָ֣ה אָחִ֗יו בְּנֵ֛י רִמּ֥וֹן הַבְּאֵֽרֹתִ֖י וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לָהֶ֑ם חַי־יְהוָ֕ה אֲשֶׁר־פָּדָ֥ה אֶת־נַפְשִׁ֖י מִכָּל־צָרָֽה׃ [2 Samuel 4:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.4.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:122` 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 4:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.121/) - next →: [2 Samuel 4:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.123/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 4:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.4.9/)