2 Samuel 16:19 · JPS 1917

And again, whom should I serve? should I not serve in the presence of his son? as I have served in thy father's presence, so will I be in thy presence.'

Who acts: I · What happens: serve, not serve, be · To what, where: presence

This is 2 Samuel 16:19 · 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 (I), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 serve	cc
2	again	again	ADV	_	12 serve	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 serve	punct
4	whom	whom	PRON	Case=Acc PronType=Int	7 serve	obj
5	should	should	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 serve	aux
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 serve	nsubj
7	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 serve	parataxis
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 serve	punct
9	should	should	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 serve	aux
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 serve	nsubj
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 serve	advmod
12	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 presence	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 presence	det
15	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 serve	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 son	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 son	nmod:poss
18	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 presence	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 serve	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 served	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 served	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 served	aux
23	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 serve	advcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	28 presence	case
25	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 father	nmod:poss
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 presence	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 father	case
28	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 served	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 presence	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	36 presence	advmod
31	will	will	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 presence	aux
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 presence	nsubj
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 presence	cop
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 presence	case
35	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	36 presence	nmod:poss
36	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 serve	parataxis
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 serve	punct
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 serve	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: neg
indirect: yes
teacher: changed act=ask, form=q, indirect=1

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	should	I				vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Attribute
2	not serve	should	I		again	in the presence of Absalom's son	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in presence=Attribute
3	serve	present · perfect	I			in thy father's presence	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in presence=Attribute
4	is	future	I	thy presence			tree rules

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

וְהַשֵּׁנִ֗ית לְמִי֙ אֲנִ֣י אֶֽעֱבֹ֔ד הֲל֖וֹא לִפְנֵ֣י בְנ֑וֹ כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר עָבַ֙דְתִּי֙ לִפְנֵ֣י אָבִ֔יךָ כֵּ֖ן אֶהְיֶ֥ה לְפָנֶֽיךָ׃פ

2 Samuel 16:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2SA:476 of Mova's parse database.

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