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title: 2 Samuel 19:19 (JPS 1917) — And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he would… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he would go over the Jordan. Who acts: Shimei. 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 2 of 2

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And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he would go over the Jordan.

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**Who acts:** Shimei · **What happens:** fall down, go over · **To what, where:** over Jordan

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This is 2 Samuel 19:19 · 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 (Shimei), 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:572
# text = And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he would go over the Jordan.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	Shimei	Shimei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Gera	Gera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
17	over	over	ADV	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **fall down** | past | Shimei |  |  |  | before the king |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before king=Location |
| 2 | **go over** | would | Shimei | the over Jordan |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jordan=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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.571/)
2. **And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he would go over the Jordan.**

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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:572` 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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