2 Samuel 19:38 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back, that I may die in mine own city, by the grave of my father and my mother.

Who acts: you, I, servant · What happens: let, pray, turn back, die · To what, where: thee

This is 2 Samuel 19:38 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (you, I, servant), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 servant	nmod:poss
3	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turn	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pray	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 pray	nsubj
6	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	parataxis
7	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 pray	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 turn	punct
9	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 turn	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 die	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 die	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 die	nsubj
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 die	aux
15	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 turn	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 city	case
17	mine	mine	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 city	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 city	amod
19	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 die	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 grave	punct
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 grave	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 grave	det
23	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 die	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 father	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 father	nmod:poss
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grave	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 mother	cc
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mother	nmod:poss
29	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 father	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	pray	present	I	thee		tree rules
3	turn back	infinitive	thy servant			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	die	may	I		by the grave of my father and my mother; in mine own city	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in city=Attribute

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

יָֽשָׁב־נָ֤א עַבְדְּךָ֙ וְאָמֻ֣ת בְּעִירִ֔י עִ֛ם קֶ֥בֶר אָבִ֖י וְאִמִּ֑י וְהִנֵּ֣ה ׀ עַבְדְּךָ֣ כִמְהָ֗ם יַֽעֲבֹר֙ עִם־אֲדֹנִ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וַעֲשֵׂה־ל֕וֹ אֵ֥ת אֲשֶׁר־ט֖וֹב בְּעֵינֶֽיךָ׃ס

2 Samuel 19:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

This verse in JPS 1917:

Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back, that I may die in mine own city, by the grave of my father and my mother.
But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.'

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2SA:593 of Mova's parse database.

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