--- title: 2 Samuel 16:16 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, was co… · tree and pragmatics description: And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, was come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom: 'Long live the king, long live the king.' Who acts: Hushai, king. 2 Samuel 16:16 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.473/) [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/) / [16:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.16.16/) / JPS 1 # 2 Samuel 16:16 · JPS 1917 And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, was come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom: 'Long live the king, long live the king.' **Who acts:** Hushai, king · **What happens:** come, pass, say, live · **To what, where:** side · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Samuel 16:16 · 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 (Hushai, king), 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:473 # text = And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, was come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom: 'Long live the king, long live the king.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 expl _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 7 when when SCONJ WRB _ 17 mark _ _ 8 Hushai Hushai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Archite Archite PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 18 unto unto ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Absalom Absalom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 Hushai Hushai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 csubj _ _ 24 unto unto ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Absalom Absalom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 28 Long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 29 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ _ 34 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 parataxis _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ 38 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | | side | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **come** | past · passive | Hushai | | | | | unto Absalom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Hushai | | | | | unto Absalom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **live** | infinitive | the king | | | | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **live** | infinitive | the king | | | | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} וַיְהִ֗י כַּֽאֲשֶׁר־בָּ֞א חוּשַׁ֧י הָאַרְכִּ֛י רֵעֶ֥ה דָוִ֖ד אֶל־אַבְשָׁל֑וֹם וַיֹּ֤אמֶר חוּשַׁי֙ אֶל־אַבְשָׁלֹ֔ם יְחִ֥י הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ יְחִ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ [2 Samuel 16:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.16.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:473` 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 16:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.472/) - next →: [2 Samuel 16:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.474/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 16:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.16.16/)