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title: 2 Samuel 9:10 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt till the land for him, thou, and thy sons, and thy se… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thou shalt till the land for him, thou, and thy sons, and thy servants; and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master's son may have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread continually at my table.' Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants. Who acts: thou, son,
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# 2 Samuel 9:10 · JPS 1917

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And thou shalt till the land for him, thou, and thy sons, and thy servants; and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master's son may have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread continually at my table.' Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

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**Who acts:** thou, son, Mephibosheth, Ziba · **What happens:** till, bring in, have, eat · **To what, where:** land, fruits, bread, table, fifteen sons

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This is 2 Samuel 9:10 · 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, son, Mephibosheth, Ziba), 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:239
# text = And thou shalt till the land for him, thou, and thy sons, and thy servants; and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master's son may have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread continually at my table.' Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	till	till	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
22	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
29	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
35	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
40	Mephibosheth	Mephibosheth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
41	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	's	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	_
45	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
47	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
48	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
49	at	at	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
53	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
54	Now	now	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
55	Ziba	Ziba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
56	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
57	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	58	nummod	_	_
58	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obj	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
60	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	61	nummod	_	_
61	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	conj	_	_
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **till** | shall | thou | the land |  |  |  | for servant | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring in** | shall | thou | the fruits |  |  |  |  | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fruit=Asset |
| 3 | **have** | may | thy master's son | bread |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | thy master's son *not said here* | bread *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **eat** | shall | Mephibosheth | bread |  | my table |  | continually *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 6 | **have** | past | Ziba | fifteen sons and twenty servants |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |

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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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וְעָבַ֣דְתָּ לּ֣וֹ אֶֽת־הָאֲדָמָ֡ה אַתָּה֩ וּבָנֶ֨יךָ וַעֲבָדֶ֜יךָ וְהֵבֵ֗אתָ וְהָיָ֨ה לְבֶן־אֲדֹנֶ֤יךָ לֶּ֙חֶם֙ וַאֲכָל֔וֹ וּמְפִיבֹ֙שֶׁת֙ בֶּן־אֲדֹנֶ֔יךָ יֹאכַ֥ל תָּמִ֛יד לֶ֖חֶם עַל־שֻׁלְחָנִ֑י וּלְצִיבָ֗א חֲמִשָּׁ֥ה עָשָׂ֛ר בָּנִ֖ים וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים עֲבָדִֽים׃

[2 Samuel 9:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.9.10/)

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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:239` 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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