--- title: 2 Samuel 19:26 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king,… · tree and pragmatics description: And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him: 'Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?' Who acts: beard, king, thou. 2 Samuel 19:26 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.579/) [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/) / [19:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.26/) / JPS 1 # 2 Samuel 19:26 · JPS 1917 And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him: 'Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?' **Who acts:** beard, king, thou · **What happens:** come, pass, meet, say, not go · **To what, where:** Jerusalem, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Samuel 19:26 · 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 (beard, king, thou), 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:579 # text = And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him: 'Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 when when SCONJ WRB _ 10 mark _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Jerusalem Jerusalem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 22 unto unto ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 26 Wherefore wherefore ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 27 wentest go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 29 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 27 nsubj _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 Mephibosheth Mephibosheth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 vocative _ _ 34 ? ? PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ 35 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | beard | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | beard *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **come** | past · passive | king | | | Jerusalem | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to jerusalem=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **meet** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | the king | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Co-Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king | | | | | unto Jerusalem | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **not** **go** | past | thou | | | | | with me; Mephibosheth *vocative*; wherefore *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary | 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} וַיְהִ֛י כִּי־בָ֥א יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם לִקְרַ֣את הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לוֹ֙ הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ לָ֛מָּה לֹא־הָלַ֥כְתָּ עִמִּ֖י מְפִיבֹֽשֶׁת׃ [2 Samuel 19:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.26/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:579` 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 19:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.578/) - next →: [2 Samuel 19:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.580/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 19:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.26/)