--- title: 2 Samuel 18:4 (JPS 1917) — And the king said unto them: 'What seemeth you best I will do.' And… · tree and pragmatics description: And the king said unto them: 'What seemeth you best I will do.' And the king stood by the gate-side, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands. 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And the king stood by the gate-side, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands. **Who acts:** king, I, people · **What happens:** say, seem, do, stand, go out · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Samuel 18:4 · 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, I, people), 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:515 # text = And the king said unto them: 'What seemeth you best I will do.' And the king stood by the gate-side, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 9 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 15 obj _ _ 10 seemeth seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ _ 12 best well ADV RBS Degree=Sup 10 advmod _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ 17 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 18 And and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 31 det:predet _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 33 out out ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king | | | | | unto people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **seem** | present | I *not said here* | | you | | | well *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Attribute | | 3 | **do** | future | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **stand** | past | the king | | | | | by the gate side | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | | 5 | **go out** | past | all people | | | | | by hundreds and thousands; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: 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} וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֲלֵיהֶם֙ הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ אֲשֶׁר־יִיטַ֥ב בְּעֵינֵיכֶ֖ם אֶעֱשֶׂ֑ה וַיַּעֲמֹ֤ד הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ אֶל־יַ֣ד הַשַּׁ֔עַר וְכָל־הָעָם֙ יָֽצְא֔וּ לְמֵא֖וֹת וְלַאֲלָפִֽים׃ [2 Samuel 18:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.18.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:515` 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 18:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.514/) - next →: [2 Samuel 18:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.516/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 18:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.18.4/)