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title: 2 Samuel 9:12 (JPS 1917) — And all that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto Mephibosh… · tree and pragmatics
description: And all that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto Mephibosheth. Who acts: all. 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 2 of 2

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And all that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto Mephibosheth.

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**Who acts:** all · **What happens:** dwell, be · **To what, where:** house, servants

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This is 2 Samuel 9:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (all), 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:242
# text = And all that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto Mephibosheth.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Ziba	Ziba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Mephibosheth	Mephibosheth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **dwell** | past |  |  |  | the house of Ziba |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | all | servants |  |  |  | unto Mephibosheth | 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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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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.241/)
2. **And all that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto Mephibosheth.**

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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:242` 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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