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title: 2 Samuel 7:7 (JPS 1917) — In all places wherein I have walked among all the children of Israel… · tree and pragmatics
description: In all places wherein I have walked among all the children of Israel, spoke I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed My people Israel, saying: Why have ye not built Me a house of cedar? Who acts: I, ye. 2 Samuel 7:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# 2 Samuel 7:7 · JPS 1917

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In all places wherein I have walked among all the children of Israel, spoke I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed My people Israel, saying: Why have ye not built Me a house of cedar?

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**Who acts:** I, ye · **What happens:** walk, speak, command, feed, say, not build · **To what, where:** word, places, tribes, people, house, Me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 7:7 · 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, ye), 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:184
# text = In all places wherein I have walked among all the children of Israel, spoke I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed My people Israel, saying: Why have ye not built Me a house of cedar?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
4	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	walked	walk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
38	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
39	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
40	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	42	nsubj	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	ccomp	_	_
43	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	iobj	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	cedar	cedar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
48	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: other
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=other, form=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | among all children of Israel; wherein *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among child=Trajectory |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | I | a word |  | all places |  | with any | tree rules |
| 3 | **command** | past | I | the tribes of Israel |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **feed** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  | My people |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **build** | present · perfect | ye | a house of cedar | Me |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary house=Product |

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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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בְּכֹ֥ל אֲשֶֽׁר־הִתְהַלַּכְתִּי֮ בְּכָל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵל֒ הֲדָבָ֣ר דִּבַּ֗רְתִּי אֶת־אַחַד֙ שִׁבְטֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר צִוִּ֗יתִי לִרְע֛וֹת אֶת־עַמִּ֥י אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר לָ֛מָּה לֹֽא־בְנִיתֶ֥ם לִ֖י בֵּ֥ית אֲרָזִֽים׃

[2 Samuel 7:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.7.7/)

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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:184` 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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