--- title: 2 Samuel 19:28 (JPS 1917) — And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord… · tree and pragmatics description: And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God; do therefore what is good in thine eyes. Who acts: king, lord. 2 Samuel 19:28 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.581/) [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/) / [19:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.28/) / JPS 1 # 2 Samuel 19:28 · JPS 1917 And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God; do therefore what is good in thine eyes. **Who acts:** king, lord · **What happens:** slander, be, do · **To what, where:** servant, eyes This is 2 Samuel 19:28 · 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 (king, lord), 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:581 # text = And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God; do therefore what is good in thine eyes. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 slandered slander VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 unto unto ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 as as ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 angel angel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 25 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 26 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 29 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 ccomp _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slander** | present · perfect | king | thy servant | | | | unto my lord | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | my lord | | | | | as a angel; of God | tree rules | | 3 | **do** | infinitive | | | | | | therefore *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | thine eyes | | good *property* | tree rules | 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} וַיְרַגֵּ֣ל בְּעַבְדְּךָ֔ אֶל־אֲדֹנִ֖י הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וַאדֹנִ֤י הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ כְּמַלְאַ֣ךְ הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים וַעֲשֵׂ֥ה הַטּ֖וֹב בְּעֵינֶֽיךָ׃ [2 Samuel 19:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.28/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:581` 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 19:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.580/) - next →: [2 Samuel 19:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.582/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 19:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.28/)