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# 2 Samuel 15:21 · JPS 1917

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And Ittai answered the king, and said: 'As the LORD liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, even there also will thy servant be.'

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**Who acts:** Ittai, LORD, servant · **What happens:** answer, say, live, be · **To what, where:** king, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 15:21 · 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 (Ittai, LORD, servant), 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:440
# text = And Ittai answered the king, and said: 'As the LORD liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, even there also will thy servant be.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Ittai	Ittai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	_
11	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	liveth	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	advcl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
22	liveth	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	27	det	_	_
27	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	advcl	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
32	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
42	even	even	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	ccomp	_	_
44	also	also	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
45	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
46	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	cop	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
50	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Ittai |  | the king |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ittai *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **live** | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | present | my lord |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | shall | my lord |  |  | what place |  | for death or life | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | future | thy servant |  |  |  |  | surely, there *property* | tree rules |

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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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וַיַּ֧עַן אִתַּ֛י אֶת־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ וַיֹּאמַ֑ר חַי־יְהוָ֗ה וְחֵי֙ אֲדֹנִ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ כִּ֠י אִם־בִּמְק֞וֹם אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִֽהְיֶה־שָּׁ֣ם ׀ אֲדֹנִ֣י הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ אִם־לְמָ֙וֶת֙ אִם־לְחַיִּ֔ים כִּי־שָׁ֖ם יִהְיֶ֥ה עַבְדֶּֽךָ׃

[2 Samuel 15:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.15.21/)

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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:440` 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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