--- title: 2 Samuel 15:4 (JPS 1917) — Absalom said moreover: 'Oh that I were made judge in the land, that… · tree and pragmatics description: Absalom said moreover: 'Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!' Who acts: Absalom, man, I. 2 Samuel 15:4 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.421/) [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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/15/) / [15:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.15.4/) / JPS 1 # 2 Samuel 15:4 · JPS 1917 Absalom said moreover: 'Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!' **Who acts:** Absalom, man, I · **What happens:** say, make, have, come, do · **To what, where:** I, land, suit, justice, Absalom · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Samuel 15:4 · 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 (Absalom, man, I), 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:421 # text = Absalom said moreover: 'Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!' 1 Absalom Absalom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 moreover moreover ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 6 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 10 discourse _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 ccomp _ _ 11 judge judge NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 xcomp _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 17 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 hath have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 22 det _ _ 22 suit suit NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 27 unto unto ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 iobj _ _ 35 justice justice NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 37 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: express - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Absalom | | | | | moreover *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **make** | past · passive | | I | | the land | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 3 | **have** | present | every man | any suit or cause | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suit=Patient | | 4 | **come** | might | every man | | | | | unto me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **do** | would | I | justice | Absalom | | | | tree rules | 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} וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אַבְשָׁל֔וֹם מִי־יְשִׂמֵ֥נִי שֹׁפֵ֖ט בָּאָ֑רֶץ וְעָלַ֗י יָב֥וֹא כָּל־אִ֛ישׁ אֲשֶֽׁר־יִהְיֶה־לּוֹ־רִ֥יב וּמִשְׁפָּ֖ט וְהִצְדַּקְתִּֽיו׃ [2 Samuel 15:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.15.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:421` 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 15:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.420/) - next →: [2 Samuel 15:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.422/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 15:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.15.4/)