--- title: 2 Samuel 7:19 (JPS 1917) — And this was yet a small thing in Thine eyes, O Lord GOD; but Thou h… · tree and pragmatics description: And this was yet a small thing in Thine eyes, O Lord GOD; but Thou hast spoken also of Thy servant's house for a great while to come; and this too after the manner of great men, O Lord GOD. Who acts: this, Thou. 2 Samuel 7:19 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.197/) [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/) / [7:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.7.19/) / JPS 1 # 2 Samuel 7:19 · JPS 1917 And this was yet a small thing in Thine eyes, O Lord GOD; but Thou hast spoken also of Thy servant's house for a great while to come; and this too after the manner of great men, O Lord GOD. **Who acts:** this, Thou · **What happens:** be, speak, come · **To what, where:** small thing, eyes · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Samuel 7:19 · 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 (this, Thou), 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:197 # text = And this was yet a small thing in Thine eyes, O Lord GOD; but Thou hast spoken also of Thy servant's house for a great while to come; and this too after the manner of great men, O Lord GOD. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 yet yet ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 Thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 O o INTJ UH _ 14 discourse _ _ 13 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 GOD GOD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nsubj _ _ 18 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 20 also also ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 acl _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 conj _ _ 35 too too ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 after after ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 O o INTJ UH _ 45 discourse _ _ 44 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 GOD GOD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 appos _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | this | a small thing | | Thine eyes | yet | | tree rules | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | Thou | | | | while | of Thy servant's house | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | Thou *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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} וַתִּקְטַן֩ ע֨וֹד זֹ֤את בְּעֵינֶ֙יךָ֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה וַתְּדַבֵּ֛ר גַּ֥ם אֶל־בֵּֽית־עַבְדְּךָ֖ לְמֵֽרָח֑וֹק וְזֹ֛את תּוֹרַ֥ת הָאָדָ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃ [2 Samuel 7:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.7.19/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:197` 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 7:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.196/) - next →: [2 Samuel 7:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.198/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 7:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.7.19/)