--- title: 2 Samuel 1:26 (JPS 1917) — I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant hast th… · tree and pragmatics description: I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant hast thou been unto me; wonderful was thy love to me, passing the love of women. Who acts: I, thou, love, thy. 2 Samuel 1:26 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.31/) [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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/1/) / [1:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.1.26/) / JPS 1 # 2 Samuel 1:26 · JPS 1917 I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant hast thou been unto me; wonderful was thy love to me, passing the love of women. **Who acts:** I, thou, love, thy · **What happens:** be, pass, love · **To what, where:** love, women This is 2 Samuel 1:26 · 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 (I, thou, love, 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:31 # text = I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant hast thou been unto me; wonderful was thy love to me, passing the love of women. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 distressed distress ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 9 Jonathan Jonathan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 very very ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 pleasant pleasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 13 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 14 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 nsubj _ _ 15 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 cop _ _ 16 unto unto ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 19 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 21 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 passing pass VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: express - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=express, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | I | | | | | for thee; distress *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present · perfect | thou | | | | | unto me; pleasant *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | thy love to me | | | | | wonderful *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **pass** | gerund | thy love to me *not said here* | the love of women | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme love=Trajectory | | 5 | **love** | | thy | | | | | to me | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | | 6 | **love** | | | women | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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} צַר־לִ֣י עָלֶ֗יךָ אָחִי֙ יְה֣וֹנָתָ֔ן נָעַ֥מְתָּ לִּ֖י מְאֹ֑ד נִפְלְאַ֤תָה אַהֲבָֽתְךָ֙ לִ֔י מֵאַהֲבַ֖ת נָשִֽׁים׃ [2 Samuel 1:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.1.26/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:31` 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 1:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.30/) - next →: [2 Samuel 1:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.32/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 1:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.1.26/)