--- title: 2 Samuel 23:5 (JPS 1917) — For is not my house established with God? for an everlasting covenan… · tree and pragmatics description: For is not my house established with God? for an everlasting covenant He hath made with me, ordered in all things, and sure; for all my salvation, and all my desire, will he not make it to grow? 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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 (God, house, my), 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:715 # text = For is not my house established with God? for an everlasting covenant He hath made with me, ordered in all things, and sure; for all my salvation, and all my desire, will he not make it to grow? 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 established establish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 everlasting everlasting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 covenant covenant NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 ordered order VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 31 det:predet _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 salvation salvation NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 36 det:predet _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 desire desire NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 38 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 45 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **establish** | present · passive | | my house | | | | with God; for a everlasting covenant | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme with god=Source | | 2 | **make** | present · perfect | God | a everlasting covenant *not said here* | | | | with me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent covenant=Product | | 3 | **order** | participle | God *not said here* | | | all things | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **make** | future | God | house | | | | for my salvation and my desire | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **grow** | to-infinitive | house *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **salve** | | my | | | | | | nom salvation «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **desire** | | my | | | | | | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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} כִּֽי־לֹא־כֵ֥ן בֵּיתִ֖י עִם־אֵ֑ל כִּי֩ בְרִ֨ית עוֹלָ֜ם שָׂ֣ם לִ֗י עֲרוּכָ֤ה בַכֹּל֙ וּשְׁמֻרָ֔ה כִּֽי־כָל־יִשְׁעִ֥י וְכָל־חֵ֖פֶץ כִּֽי־לֹ֥א יַצְמִֽיחַ׃ [2 Samuel 23:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.5/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2SA:715` 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 23:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.714/) - next →: [2 Samuel 23:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.716/) - ↑ back to [2 Samuel 23:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.5/)