--- title: 2 Samuel 19:21 (JPS 1917) — For thy servant doth know that I have sinned; therefore, behold, I a… · tree and pragmatics description: For thy servant doth know that I have sinned; therefore, behold, I am come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.' Who acts: servant, I. 2 Samuel 19:21 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.574/) [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/) / [19:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.21/) / JPS 1 # 2 Samuel 19:21 · JPS 1917 For thy servant doth know that I have sinned; therefore, behold, I am come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.' **Who acts:** servant, I · **What happens:** know, sin, come, go down, meet · **To what, where:** first, lord · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Samuel 19:21 · 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 (servant, I), 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:574 # text = For thy servant doth know that I have sinned; therefore, behold, I am come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.' 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 doth do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 sinned sin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 ccomp _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 11 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 behold behold INTJ UH _ 17 discourse _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 18 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 25 det:predet _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 30 down down ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 33 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 38 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present · do-support | thy servant | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **sin** | present · perfect | I | | | | | | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come** | present · passive | I | the first of all house of Joseph | | | day | therefore *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **go down** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **meet** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my lord | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Co-Agent | 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} כִּ֚י יָדַ֣ע עַבְדְּךָ֔ כִּ֖י אֲנִ֣י חָטָ֑אתִי וְהִנֵּֽה־בָ֣אתִי הַיּ֗וֹם רִאשׁוֹן֙ לְכָל־בֵּ֣ית יוֹסֵ֔ף לָרֶ֕דֶת לִקְרַ֖את אֲדֹנִ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס [2 Samuel 19:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:574` 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 19:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.573/) - next →: [2 Samuel 19:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.575/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 19:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.21/)