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title: 2 Samuel 22:23 (JPS 1917) — For all His ordinances were before me; and as for His statutes, I di… · tree and pragmatics
description: For all His ordinances were before me; and as for His statutes, I did not depart from them. Who acts: ordinances, I, LORD. 2 Samuel 22:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Samuel 22:23 · JPS 1917

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For all His ordinances were before me; and as for His statutes, I did not depart from them.

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**Who acts:** ordinances, I, LORD · **What happens:** be, not depart, ordain

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This is 2 Samuel 22:23 · 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 (ordinances, I, 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:682
# text = For all His ordinances were before me; and as for His statutes, I did not depart from them.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	ordinances	ordinance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	statutes	statute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | LORD's ordinances |  |  |  | before me |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **depart** | past · do-support | I |  |  |  |  | as LORD's statutes; from ordinances *= ordinance* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from they=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **ordain** |  | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom ordinance «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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}

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כִּ֥י כָל־מִשְׁפָּטָ֖יו לְנֶגְדִּ֑י וְחֻקֹּתָ֖יו לֹא־אָס֥וּר מִמֶּֽנָּה׃

[2 Samuel 22:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.23/)

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