--- title: 2 Samuel 15:7 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass at the end of forty years, that Absalom said unt… · tree and pragmatics description: And it came to pass at the end of forty years, that Absalom said unto the king: 'I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron. Who acts: Absalom, I, me, my. 2 Samuel 15:7 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.424/) [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/) / [15:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.15.7/) / JPS 1 # 2 Samuel 15:7 · JPS 1917 And it came to pass at the end of forty years, that Absalom said unto the king: 'I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron. **Who acts:** Absalom, I, me, my · **What happens:** come, pass, say, pray, let, go · **To what, where:** judgment, end, thee, me, vow, Hebron · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Samuel 15:7 · 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, I, me, my), 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:424 # text = And it came to pass at the end of forty years, that Absalom said unto the king: 'I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 expl _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 Absalom Absalom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 csubj _ _ 16 unto unto ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 23 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 vow vow NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 obj _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 vowed vow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 acl:relcl _ _ 37 unto unto ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 Hebron Hebron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | | judgment | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | | | | | at the end of forty years | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at end=Location | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Absalom | | | | | unto the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **pray** | present | I | thee | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | | me | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | infinitive | me *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **pay** | infinitive | me *not said here* | my vow | | Hebron | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Asset | | 8 | **vow** | present · perfect | I | my vow | | | | unto the LORD | tree rules | | 9 | **vow** | | my | | | | | | nom vow «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וַיְהִ֕י מִקֵּ֖ץ אַרְבָּעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אַבְשָׁלוֹם֙ אֶל־הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ אֵ֣לֲכָה נָּ֗א וַאֲשַׁלֵּ֛ם אֶת־נִדְרִ֛י אֲשֶׁר־נָדַ֥רְתִּי לַֽיהוָ֖ה בְּחֶבְרֽוֹן׃ [2 Samuel 15:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.15.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:424` 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 15:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.423/) - next →: [2 Samuel 15:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.425/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 15:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.15.7/)