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title: 2 Samuel 15:8 (JPS 1917) — For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Aram, saying:… · tree and pragmatics
description: For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Aram, saying: If the LORD shall indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD.' Who acts: servant, I, LORD. 2 Samuel 15:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 15:8 · JPS 1917

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For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Aram, saying: If the LORD shall indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD.'

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**Who acts:** servant, I, LORD · **What happens:** vow, abode, say, bring back, serve · **To what, where:** vow, Geshur, me, Jerusalem, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 15:8 · 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 (servant, I, LORD), 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:425
# text = For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Aram, saying: If the LORD shall indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD.'
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	vowed	vow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	vow	vow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	abode	abode	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Geshur	Geshur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Aram	Aram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
17	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
35	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vow** | past | thy servant | a vow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **abode** | present | I |  |  | Geshur |  | in Aram | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | thy servant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **bring back** *a condition, not said to happen* | shall | the LORD | me | Jerusalem |  |  | indeed *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to jerusalem=Destination |
| 5 | **serve** | future | I | the LORD |  |  | then |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Attribute |

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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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כִּי־נֵ֙דֶר֙ נָדַ֣ר עַבְדְּךָ֔ בְּשִׁבְתִּ֥י בִגְשׁ֛וּר בַּאֲרָ֖ם לֵאמֹ֑ר אִם־יָשׁ֨וֹב יְשִׁיבֵ֤נִי יְהוָה֙ יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם וְעָבַדְתִּ֖י אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃

[2 Samuel 15:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.15.8/)

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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:425` 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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