--- title: 2 Samuel 22:16 (JPS 1917) — And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world w… · tree and pragmatics description: And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were laid bare by the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils. Who acts: channels, rebuke. 2 Samuel 22:16 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.675/) [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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/22/) / [22:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.16/) / JPS 1 # 2 Samuel 22:16 · JPS 1917 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were laid bare by the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils. **Who acts:** channels, rebuke · **What happens:** appear, lay, channel, rebuke, blast · **To what, where:** foundations, blast, sea, LORD, breath This is 2 Samuel 22:16 · 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 (channels, rebuke), 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:675 # text = And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were laid bare by the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 channels channel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 foundations foundation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 16 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 rebuke rebuke NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:agent _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 blast blast NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 nostrils nostril NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | past | the channels of the sea | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **lay** | past · passive | the rebuke of the LORD | the foundations of the world | | the blast of the breath of LORD's nostrils | | bare *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme at blast=Destination | | 3 | **channel** | | | the sea | | | | | nom channel «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 4 | **rebuke** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom rebuke «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **blast** | | | the breath of LORD's nostrils | | | | | nom blast «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} וַיֵּֽרָאוּ֙ אֲפִ֣קֵי יָ֔ם יִגָּל֖וּ מֹסְד֣וֹת תֵּבֵ֑ל בְּגַעֲרַ֣ת יְהוָ֔ה מִנִּשְׁמַ֖ת ר֥וּחַ אַפּֽוֹ׃ [2 Samuel 22:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:675` 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 22:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.674/) - next →: [2 Samuel 22:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.676/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 22:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.16/)