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title: 2 Samuel 15:26 (JPS 1917) — but if He say thus: I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, le… · tree and pragmatics
description: but if He say thus: I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let Him do to me as seemeth good unto Him.' Who acts: king, I, you. 2 Samuel 15:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 15:26 · JPS 1917

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but if He say thus: I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let Him do to me as seemeth good unto Him.'

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**Who acts:** king, I, you · **What happens:** say, have, be, let, do, seem · **To what, where:** delight, thee, king, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 15:26 · 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 (king, I, you), 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:445
# text = but if He say thus: I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let Him do to me as seemeth good unto Him.'
1	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
5	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	parataxis	_	_
17	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	seemeth	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
27	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | king |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | present | I | no delight |  | thee |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delight=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | infinitive | king *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **seem** | present | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

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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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וְאִם֙ כֹּ֣ה יֹאמַ֔ר לֹ֥א חָפַ֖צְתִּי בָּ֑ךְ הִנְנִ֕י יַֽעֲשֶׂה־לִּ֕י כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר ט֖וֹב בְּעֵינָֽיו׃ס

[2 Samuel 15:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.15.26/)

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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:445` 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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