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title: 2 Samuel 19:7 (JPS 1917) — For thou hast declared this day, that princes and servants are nough… · tree and pragmatics
description: For thou hast declared this day, that princes and servants are nought unto thee; for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well. Who acts: thou, princes, I, Absalom. 2 Samuel 19:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# 2 Samuel 19:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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For thou hast declared this day, that princes and servants are nought unto thee; for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.

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**Who acts:** thou, princes, I, Absalom, all, nought · **What happens:** declare, be, perceive, live, die, please · **To what, where:** nought, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 19:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (thou, princes, I, Absalom), 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:553
# text = For thou hast declared this day, that princes and servants are nought unto thee; for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	declared	declare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	nought	nought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
14	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	perceive	perceive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	40	advcl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	nsubj	_	_
31	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	conj	_	_
34	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
37	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	40	advmod	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	pleased	please	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	ccomp	_	_
41	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	40	obj	_	_
42	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	40	advmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | present · perfect | thou |  |  |  | day |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | princes and servants | nought |  |  |  | unto thee | tree rules |
| 3 | **perceive** | present | I |  |  |  | day |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **live** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Absalom |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **die** | past · perfect | all |  |  |  | day |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **please** | past · perfect | nought | thee |  |  | then | well *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thou=Experiencer |

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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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לְאַֽהֲבָה֙ אֶת־שֹׂ֣נְאֶ֔יךָ וְלִשְׂנֹ֖א אֶת־אֹהֲבֶ֑יךָ כִּ֣י ׀ הִגַּ֣דְתָּ הַיּ֗וֹם כִּ֣י אֵ֤ין לְךָ֙ שָׂרִ֣ים וַעֲבָדִ֔ים כִּ֣י ׀ יָדַ֣עְתִּי הַיּ֗וֹם כִּ֠י ל֣וּ אַבְשָׁל֥וֹם חַי֙ וְכֻלָּ֤נוּ הַיּוֹם֙ מֵתִ֔ים כִּי־אָ֖ז יָשָׁ֥ר בְּעֵינֶֽיךָ׃

[2 Samuel 19:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.7/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [in that thou lovest them that hate thee, and hatest them that love thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.552/)
2. **For thou hast declared this day, that princes and servants are nought unto thee; for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.**

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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:553` of Mova's parse database.

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