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title: 2 Kings 1:9 (JPS 1917) — And he spoke unto him: 'O man of God, the king hath said: Come down.' · tree and pragmatics
description: And he spoke unto him: 'O man of God, the king hath said: Come down.' Who acts: LORD, king. 2 Kings 1:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 1:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3

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And he spoke unto him: 'O man of God, the king hath said: Come down.'

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**Who acts:** LORD, king · **What happens:** speak, say, come down · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 1:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3 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 (LORD, king), 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:2KI:10
# text = And he spoke unto him: 'O man of God, the king hath said: Come down.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
8	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	vocative	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | LORD |  |  |  |  | unto king | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | the king |  |  |  |  | man of God *vocative* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come down** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח אֵלָ֛יו שַׂר־חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים וַחֲמִשָּׁ֑יו וַיַּ֣עַל אֵלָ֗יו וְהִנֵּה֙ יֹשֵׁב֙ עַל־רֹ֣אשׁ הָהָ֔ר וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר אֵלָ֔יו אִ֚ישׁ הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ דִּבֶּ֖ר רֵֽדָה׃

[2 Kings 1:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.1.9/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.8/)
2. [And he went up to him; and, behold, he sat on the top of the hill.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.9/)
3. **And he spoke unto him: 'O man of God, the king hath said: Come down.'**

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:10` 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.

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