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title: 2 Samuel 7:20 (JPS 1917) — And what can David say more unto Thee? for Thou knowest Thy servant,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And what can David say more unto Thee? for Thou knowest Thy servant, O Lord GOD. Who acts: David, Thou. 2 Samuel 7:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 7:20 · JPS 1917

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And what can David say more unto Thee? for Thou knowest Thy servant, O Lord GOD.

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**Who acts:** David, Thou · **What happens:** say, know · **To what, where:** servant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 7:20 · 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 (David, 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:198
# text = And what can David say more unto Thee? for Thou knowest Thy servant, O Lord GOD.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	obl	_	_
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
12	knowest	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
13	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
17	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	GOD	GOD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: express
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=q, act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | David |  |  |  |  | unto Thee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 2 | **know** | present | Thou | Thy servant |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer servant=Stimulus |

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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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וּמַה־יּוֹסִ֥יף דָּוִ֛ד ע֖וֹד לְדַבֵּ֣ר אֵלֶ֑יךָ וְאַתָּ֛ה יָדַ֥עְתָּ אֶֽת־עַבְדְּךָ֖ אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃

[2 Samuel 7:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.7.20/)

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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:198` 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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