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title: 2 Samuel 15:15 (JPS 1917) — And the king's servants said unto the king: 'Behold, thy servants ar… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the king's servants said unto the king: 'Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall choose.' Who acts: servants, lord. 2 Samuel 15:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 15:15 · JPS 1917

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And the king's servants said unto the king: 'Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall choose.'

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**Who acts:** servants, lord · **What happens:** say, be, do, choose · **To what, where:** whatsoever · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 15:15 · 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 (servants, 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:433
# text = And the king's servants said unto the king: 'Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall choose.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
12	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	whatsoever	whatsoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king's servants |  |  |  |  | unto the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | thy servants |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | thy servants *not said here* | whatsoever |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **choose** | shall | my lord |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ עַבְדֵֽי־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ אֶל־הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ כְּכֹ֧ל אֲשֶׁר־יִבְחַ֛ר אֲדֹנִ֥י הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ הִנֵּ֥ה עֲבָדֶֽיךָ׃

[2 Samuel 15:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.15.15/)

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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:433` 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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