--- title: 2 Samuel 20:19 (JPS 1917) — We are of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel; seekest th… · tree and pragmatics description: We are of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel; seekest thou to destroy a city and a mother in Israel? why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?' Who acts: We, thou. 2 Samuel 20:19 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.623/) [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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/20/) / [20:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.19/) / JPS 1 # 2 Samuel 20:19 · JPS 1917 We are of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel; seekest thou to destroy a city and a mother in Israel? why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?' **Who acts:** We, thou · **What happens:** be, seek, destroy, swallow up, inherit · **To what, where:** Israel, city, inheritance, LORD This is 2 Samuel 20:19 · 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 (We, 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:623 # text = We are of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel; seekest thou to destroy a city and a mother in Israel? why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?' 1 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 0 root _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 peaceable peaceable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 faithful faithful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 seekest seek VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 nsubj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 destroy destroy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 25 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 26 wilt will AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nsubj _ _ 28 swallow swallow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 inheritance inheritance NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 36 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: other - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=other, act=assert, indirect=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | We | | | | | of women *= woman* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | Israel | | peaceable *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **seek** | present | thou | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **destroy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | a city and a mother in Israel | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient | | 6 | **swallow up** | future | thou | the inheritance of the LORD | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inheritance=Patient | | 7 | **inherit** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom inheritance «act transitive»: of=patient | 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} אָנֹכִ֕י שְׁלֻמֵ֖י אֱמוּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אַתָּ֣ה מְבַקֵּ֗שׁ לְהָמִ֨ית עִ֤יר וְאֵם֙ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לָ֥מָּה תְבַלַּ֖ע נַחֲלַ֥ת יְהוָֽה׃פ [2 Samuel 20:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.19/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:623` 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 20:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.622/) - next →: [2 Samuel 20:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.624/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 20:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.19/)