--- title: 2 Samuel 7:16 (JPS 1917) — And thy house and thy kingdom shall be made sure for ever before the… · tree and pragmatics description: And thy house and thy kingdom shall be made sure for ever before thee; thy throne shall be established for ever.' 2 Samuel 7:16 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.194/) [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/) / [7:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.7.16/) / JPS 1 # 2 Samuel 7:16 · JPS 1917 And thy house and thy kingdom shall be made sure for ever before thee; thy throne shall be established for ever.' **What happens:** make, establish · **To what, where:** house, throne This is 2 Samuel 7:16 · 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: 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:194 # text = And thy house and thy kingdom shall be made sure for ever before thee; thy throne shall be established for ever.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 7 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 9 advmod _ _ 13 before before ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 established establish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 20 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 24 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | shall · passive | | thy house and thy kingdom | | | before thee | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **establish** | shall · passive | | thy throne | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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} וְנֶאְמַ֨ן בֵּיתְךָ֧ וּמַֽמְלַכְתְּךָ֛ עַד־עוֹלָ֖ם לְפָנֶ֑יךָ כִּֽסְאֲךָ֔ יִהְיֶ֥ה נָכ֖וֹן עַד־עוֹלָֽם׃ [2 Samuel 7:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.7.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:194` 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 7:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.193/) - next →: [2 Samuel 7:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.195/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 7:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.7.16/)