--- title: 2 Samuel 16:4 (JPS 1917) — Then said the king to Ziba: 'Behold, thine is all that pertaineth un… · tree and pragmatics description: Then said the king to Ziba: 'Behold, thine is all that pertaineth unto Mephibosheth.' And Ziba said: 'I prostrate myself; let me find favour in thy sight, my lord, O king.' Who acts: king, thine, Ziba, I. 2 Samuel 16:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.460/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [2 Samuel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/) / [chapter 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/16/) / [16:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.16.4/) / JPS 1 # 2 Samuel 16:4 · JPS 1917 Then said the king to Ziba: 'Behold, thine is all that pertaineth unto Mephibosheth.' And Ziba said: 'I prostrate myself; let me find favour in thy sight, my lord, O king.' **Who acts:** king, thine, Ziba, I, me, thy · **What happens:** say, be, pertain, prostrate, let, find · **To what, where:** Ziba, all, myself, me, favour, sight · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Samuel 16:4 · 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, thine, Ziba, I), 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:460 # text = Then said the king to Ziba: 'Behold, thine is all that pertaineth unto Mephibosheth.' And Ziba said: 'I prostrate myself; let me find favour in thy sight, my lord, O king.' 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Ziba Ziba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 9 Behold behold INTJ UH _ 13 discourse _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 thine thy PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 all all PRON DT PronType=Tot 2 ccomp _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 pertaineth pertain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 unto unto ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Mephibosheth Mephibosheth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 19 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 20 And and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 Ziba Ziba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 prostrate prostrate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 27 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 26 obj _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 29 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 30 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 O o INTJ UH _ 41 discourse _ _ 41 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 appos _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 43 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: offer - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king | | Ziba | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to ziba=Recipient | | 2 | **is a** | present | thine | all | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **pertain** | present | | | | | | unto Mephibosheth | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ziba | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **prostrate** | present | I | myself | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **let** | infinitive | | me | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **find** | infinitive | me *not said here* | favour | | thy sight | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic | | 8 | **sight** | | thy | | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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} וַיֹּ֤אמֶר הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ לְצִבָ֔א הִנֵּ֣ה לְךָ֔ כֹּ֖ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר לִמְפִי־בֹ֑שֶׁתמְפִי־בֹ֑שֶׁת וַיֹּ֤אמֶר צִיבָא֙ הִֽשְׁתַּחֲוֵ֔יתִי אֶמְצָא־חֵ֥ן בְּעֵינֶ֖יךָ אֲדֹנִ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ [2 Samuel 16:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.16.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:460` 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 16:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.459/) - next →: [2 Samuel 16:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.461/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 16:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.16.4/)