--- title: 2 Samuel 19:9 (JPS 1917) — And they told unto all the people, saying: 'Behold, the king doth si… · tree and pragmatics description: And they told unto all the people, saying: 'Behold, the king doth sit in the gate'; and all the people came before the king. Who acts: princes, king, people. 2 Samuel 19:9 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.556/) [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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/19/) / [19:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.9/) / JPS 2 # 2 Samuel 19:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3 And they told unto all the people, saying: 'Behold, the king doth sit in the gate'; and all the people came before the king. **Who acts:** princes, king, people · **What happens:** tell, say, sit, come · **To what, where:** gate · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Samuel 19:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3 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 (princes, king, 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:556 # text = And they told unto all the people, saying: 'Behold, the king doth sit in the gate'; and all the people came before the king. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 7 det:predet _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 12 Behold behold INTJ UH _ 17 discourse _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 doth do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 26 det:predet _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 28 before before ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | princes *= prince* | | | | | unto all people | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | princes *= prince* *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **sit** | present · do-support | the king | | | the gate | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in gate=Location | | 4 | **come** | past | all people | | | | before the king | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before king=Location | 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} וַיָּ֥קָם הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ וַיֵּ֣שֶׁב בַּשָּׁ֑עַר וּֽלְכָל־הָעָ֞ם הִגִּ֣ידוּ לֵאמֹ֗ר הִנֵּ֤ה הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ יוֹשֵׁ֣ב בַּשַּׁ֔עַר וַיָּבֹ֤א כָל־הָעָם֙ לִפְנֵ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל נָ֖ס אִ֥ישׁ לְאֹהָלָֽיו׃ס [2 Samuel 19:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.9/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [Then the king arose, and sat in the gate.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.555/) 2. **And they told unto all the people, saying: 'Behold, the king doth sit in the gate'; and all the people came before the king.** 3. [Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.557/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:556` 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 19:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.555/) - next →: [2 Samuel 19:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.557/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 19:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.9/)