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title: 2 Samuel 19:20 (JPS 1917) — And he said unto the king: 'Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he said unto the king: 'Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did iniquitously the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart. Who acts: Shimei, lord, thou, servant. 2 Samuel 19:20 in JPS 1917 with
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# 2 Samuel 19:20 · JPS 1917

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And he said unto the king: 'Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did iniquitously the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

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**Who acts:** Shimei, lord, thou, servant, king · **What happens:** say, not let, impute, remember, do, go out · **To what, where:** iniquity, that, Jerusalem, heart · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Samuel 19:20 · 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 (Shimei, lord, thou, servant), 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:573
# text = And he said unto the king: 'Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did iniquitously the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
13	impute	impute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
14	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	21	cc	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
21	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	obj	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
24	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	iniquitously	iniquitously	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
35	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Shimei |  |  |  |  | unto the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **let** | infinitive | my lord |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **impute** | infinitive | my lord *not said here* | iniquity |  |  |  | unto me | tree rules |
| 4 | **remember** | present · do-support | thou | that |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | past | thy servant |  |  |  | day | iniquitously *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
| 6 | **go out** | past | my lord | Jerusalem |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **take** | should | the king | iniquity |  | king's heart |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to heart=Destination |

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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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֶל־הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ אַל־יַחֲשָׁב־לִ֣י אֲדֹנִי֮ עָוֺן֒ וְאַל־תִּזְכֹּ֗ר אֵ֚ת אֲשֶׁ֣ר הֶעֱוָ֣ה עַבְדְּךָ֔ בַּיּ֕וֹם אֲשֶׁר־יָׄצָ֥ׄאׄאֲדֹנִֽי־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ מִירֽוּשָׁלִָ֑ם לָשׂ֥וּם הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ אֶל־לִבּֽוֹ׃

[2 Samuel 19:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.20/)

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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:573` 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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