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title: 2 Samuel 7:27 (JPS 1917) — For Thou, O LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, hast revealed to Thy s… · tree and pragmatics
description: For Thou, O LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, hast revealed to Thy servant, saying: I will build thee a house; therefore hath Thy servant taken heart to pray this prayer unto Thee. Who acts: Thou, I, servant. 2 Samuel 7:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 7:27 · JPS 1917

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For Thou, O LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, hast revealed to Thy servant, saying: I will build thee a house; therefore hath Thy servant taken heart to pray this prayer unto Thee.

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**Who acts:** Thou, I, servant · **What happens:** reveal, say, build, take, pray · **To what, where:** servant, house, thee, heart, prayer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 7:27 · 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 (Thou, I, servant), 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:205
# text = For Thou, O LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, hast revealed to Thy servant, saying: I will build thee a house; therefore hath Thy servant taken heart to pray this prayer unto Thee.
1	For	for	CCONJ	IN	_	15	cc	_	_
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	revealed	reveal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
25	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	iobj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
29	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
30	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
34	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
37	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
38	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reveal** | present · perfect | Thou |  | Thy servant |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **build** | future | I | a house | thee |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset thou=Beneficiary house=Product |
| 4 | **take** | present · perfect | Thy servant | heart |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |
| 5 | **pray** | to-infinitive | Thy servant *not said here* | this prayer |  |  |  | unto Thee | tree rules |

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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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כִּֽי־אַתָּה֩ יְהוָ֨ה צְבָא֜וֹת אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל גָּלִ֜יתָה אֶת־אֹ֤זֶן עַבְדְּךָ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר בַּ֖יִת אֶבְנֶה־לָּ֑ךְ עַל־כֵּ֗ן מָצָ֤א עַבְדְּךָ֙ אֶת־לִבּ֔וֹ לְהִתְפַּלֵּ֣ל אֵלֶ֔יךָ אֶת־הַתְּפִלָּ֖ה הַזֹּֽאת׃

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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:205` of Mova's parse database.

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