--- title: 2 Samuel 7:14 (JPS 1917) — I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son; if h… · tree and pragmatics description: I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son; if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men; Who acts: I, LORD. 2 Samuel 7:14 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.192/) [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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/7/) / [7:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.7.14/) / JPS 1 # 2 Samuel 7:14 · JPS 1917 I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son; if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men; **Who acts:** I, LORD · **What happens:** be, commit, chasten · **To what, where:** iniquity, LORD This is 2 Samuel 7:14 · 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, 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:192 # text = I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son; if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men; 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 12 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 conj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 commit commit VERB VBP Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 23 iniquity iniquity NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 chasten chasten VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 rod rod NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 stripes stripe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ _ 44 ; ; PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=promise | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | future | I | | | | | to LORD; for a father | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | shall | LORD | | | | | to Me; for a son | tree rules | | 3 | **commit** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | LORD | iniquity | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=Theme | | 4 | **chasten** | future | I | LORD | | | | with the rod of men and the stripes of the children of men | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | 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} אֲנִי֙ אֶהְיֶה־לּ֣וֹ לְאָ֔ב וְה֖וּא יִהְיֶה־לִּ֣י לְבֵ֑ן אֲשֶׁר֙ בְּהַ֣עֲוֺת֔וֹ וְהֹֽכַחְתִּיו֙ בְּשֵׁ֣בֶט אֲנָשִׁ֔ים וּבְנִגְעֵ֖י בְּנֵ֥י אָדָֽם׃ [2 Samuel 7:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.7.14/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:192` 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 7:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.191/) - next →: [2 Samuel 7:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.193/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 7:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.7.14/)