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title: 2 Samuel 7:5 (JPS 1917) — 'Go and tell My servant David: Thus saith the LORD: Shalt thou build… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Go and tell My servant David: Thus saith the LORD: Shalt thou build Me a house for Me to dwell in? Who acts: you, LORD, thou, Me. 2 Samuel 7:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 7:5 · JPS 1917

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'Go and tell My servant David: Thus saith the LORD: Shalt thou build Me a house for Me to dwell in?

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**Who acts:** you, LORD, thou, Me · **What happens:** go, tell, say, build, dwell · **To what, where:** servant, house, Me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 7:5 · 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 (you, LORD, thou, Me), 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:182
# text = 'Go and tell My servant David: Thus saith the LORD: Shalt thou build Me a house for Me to dwell in?
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	Shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
16	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
17	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	obl	_	_
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | My servant |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **build** | shall | thou | a house | Me |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary house=Product |
| 5 | **dwell** | to-infinitive | Me |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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}

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לֵ֤ךְ וְאָֽמַרְתָּ֙ אֶל־עַבְדִּ֣י אֶל־דָּוִ֔ד כֹּ֖ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה הַאַתָּ֛ה תִּבְנֶה־לִּ֥י בַ֖יִת לְשִׁבְתִּֽי׃

[2 Samuel 7:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.7.5/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:182` 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.

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