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title: 2 Samuel 9:12 (JPS 1917) — Now Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. Who acts: Mephibosheth, name, Mica. 2 Samuel 9:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 9:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Now Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica.

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**Who acts:** Mephibosheth, name, Mica · **What happens:** have, be, name · **To what, where:** young son, Mica

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This is 2 Samuel 9:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (Mephibosheth, name, Mica), 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:241
# text = Now Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Mephibosheth	Mephibosheth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	Mica	Mica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Mephibosheth | a young son |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Mica's name | Mica |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** |  | Mica |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וְלִמְפִיבֹ֥שֶׁת בֵּן־קָטָ֖ן וּשְׁמ֣וֹ מִיכָ֑א וְכֹל֙ מוֹשַׁ֣ב בֵּית־צִיבָ֔א עֲבָדִ֖ים לִמְפִיבֹֽשֶׁת׃

[2 Samuel 9:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.9.12/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Now Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica.**
2. [And all that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto Mephibosheth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.242/)

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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:241` 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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