--- title: 2 Samuel 7:26 (JPS 1917) — And let Thy name be magnified for ever, that it may be said: The LOR… · tree and pragmatics description: And let Thy name be magnified for ever, that it may be said: The LORD of hosts is God over Israel; and the house of Thy servant David shall be established before Thee. Who acts: you, name, LORD, Thy. 2 Samuel 7:26 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.204/) [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/) / [7:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.7.26/) / JPS 1 # 2 Samuel 7:26 · JPS 1917 And let Thy name be magnified for ever, that it may be said: The LORD of hosts is God over Israel; and the house of Thy servant David shall be established before Thee. **Who acts:** you, name, LORD, Thy · **What happens:** let, magnify, say, be, establish, name · **To what, where:** name, God, Israel, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Samuel 7:26 · 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 (you, name, LORD, Thy), 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:204 # text = And let Thy name be magnified for ever, that it may be said: The LORD of hosts is God over Israel; and the house of Thy servant David shall be established before Thee. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 2 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 3 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 magnified magnify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 xcomp _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 16 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 hosts host NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 ccomp _ _ 22 over over ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 established establish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 35 before before ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 34 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | Thy name | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **magnify** | infinitive · passive | Thy name *not said here* | | | | | | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | may · passive | | name | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | | 4 | **is a** | present | the LORD of hosts | God | | Israel | | | tree rules | | 5 | **establish** | shall · passive | | the house of Thy servant | | | before Thee | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **name** | | Thy | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וְיִגְדַּ֨ל שִׁמְךָ֤ עַד־עוֹלָם֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת אֱלֹהִ֖ים עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וּבֵית֙ עַבְדְּךָ֣ דָוִ֔ד יִהְיֶ֥ה נָכ֖וֹן לְפָנֶֽיךָ׃ [2 Samuel 7:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.7.26/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:204` 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 7:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.203/) - next →: [2 Samuel 7:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.205/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 7:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.7.26/)