--- title: 2 Samuel 15:18 (JPS 1917) — And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites,… · tree and pragmatics description: And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men that came after him from Gath, passed on before the king. 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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, hundred men, Cherethites), 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:437 # text = And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men that came after him from Gath, passed on before the king. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 4 det:predet _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 beside beside ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 11 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 13 det:predet _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Cherethites Cherethites PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 18 det:predet _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Pelethites Pelethites PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 23 det:predet _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Gittites Gittites PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 compound _ _ 26 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 after after ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Gath Gath PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 36 on on ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 before before ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass on** | past | king's servants | | | | | beside king | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **come** | past | hundred men | | | Gath | after king | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from gath=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **pass on** | past | all Cherethites and all Pelethites and all Gittites and hundred men | | | | before the king | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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} וְכָל־עֲבָדָיו֙ עֹבְרִ֣ים עַל־יָד֔וֹ וְכָל־הַכְּרֵתִ֖י וְכָל־הַפְּלֵתִ֑י וְכָֽל־הַגִּתִּ֞ים שֵׁשׁ־מֵא֣וֹת אִ֗ישׁ אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֤אוּ בְרַגְלוֹ֙ מִגַּ֔ת עֹבְרִ֖ים עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ [2 Samuel 15:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.15.18/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:437` 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 15:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.436/) - next →: [2 Samuel 15:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.438/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 15:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.15.18/)