--- title: 2 Samuel 19:38 (JPS 1917) — But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the kin… · tree and pragmatics description: But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.' Who acts: you, Chimham. 2 Samuel 19:38 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.594/) [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/) / [19:38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.38/) / JPS 2 # 2 Samuel 19:38 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.' **Who acts:** you, Chimham · **What happens:** behold, let, go over, do, seem · **To what, where:** servant, Chimham, king This is 2 Samuel 19:38 · 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 (you, Chimham), 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:594 # text = But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.' 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 2 behold behold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 3 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 Chimham Chimham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 over over ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 obj _ _ 22 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 seem seem VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 unto unto ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 24 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 28 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **behold** | imperative | you *not said here* | thy servant | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer servant=Stimulus | | 2 | **let** | infinitive | | Chimham | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go over** | infinitive | Chimham *not said here* | | | | | with my lord | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **do** | infinitive | | | king | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 5 | **seem** | shall | | | | | | good *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | 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} יָֽשָׁב־נָ֤א עַבְדְּךָ֙ וְאָמֻ֣ת בְּעִירִ֔י עִ֛ם קֶ֥בֶר אָבִ֖י וְאִמִּ֑י וְהִנֵּ֣ה ׀ עַבְדְּךָ֣ כִמְהָ֗ם יַֽעֲבֹר֙ עִם־אֲדֹנִ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וַעֲשֵׂה־ל֕וֹ אֵ֥ת אֲשֶׁר־ט֖וֹב בְּעֵינֶֽיךָ׃ס [2 Samuel 19:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.38/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back, that I may die in mine own city, by the grave of my father and my mother.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.593/) 2. **But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.'** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:594` 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 19:38 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.593/) - next →: [2 Samuel 19:39 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.595/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 19:38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.38/)