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title: 2 Samuel 19:19 (JPS 1917) — And the ferryboat passed to and fro to bring over the king's househo… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the ferryboat passed to and fro to bring over the king's household, and to do what he thought good. Who acts: ferryboat. 2 Samuel 19:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 19:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And the ferryboat passed to and fro to bring over the king's household, and to do what he thought good.

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**Who acts:** ferryboat · **What happens:** pass, bring over, do, think · **To what, where:** household

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This is 2 Samuel 19:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (ferryboat), 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:571
# text = And the ferryboat passed to and fro to bring over the king's household, and to do what he thought good.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ferryboat	ferryboat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fro	fro	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **pass** | past | the ferryboat |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bring over** | to-infinitive | the ferryboat *not said here* | the king's household |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent household=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | the ferryboat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | ferryboat |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |

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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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וְעָבְרָ֣ה הָעֲבָרָ֗ה לַֽעֲבִיר֙ אֶת־בֵּ֣ית הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וְלַעֲשׂ֥וֹת הַטּ֖וֹב בְּעֵינָ֑יו וְשִׁמְעִ֣י בֶן־גֵּרָ֗א נָפַל֙ לִפְנֵ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ בְּעָבְר֖וֹ בַּיַּרְדֵּֽן׃

[2 Samuel 19:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.19/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And the ferryboat passed to and fro to bring over the king's household, and to do what he thought good.**
2. [And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he would go over the Jordan.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.572/)

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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:571` 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.

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