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title: 2 Kings 4:23 (JPS 1917) — And he said: Wherefore wilt thou go to him today? it is neither new… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he said: Wherefore wilt thou go to him today? it is neither new moon nor sabbath.' And she said: 'It shall be well.' Who acts: man, thou, door, servant. 2 Kings 4:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 4:23 · JPS 1917

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And he said: Wherefore wilt thou go to him today? it is neither new moon nor sabbath.' And she said: 'It shall be well.'

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**Who acts:** man, thou, door, servant · **What happens:** say, go, be · **To what, where:** man, new moon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 4:23 · 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 (man, thou, door, 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:2KI:102
# text = And he said: Wherefore wilt thou go to him today? it is neither new moon nor sabbath.' And she said: 'It shall be well.'
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	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	17	cc:preconj	_	_
16	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	19	cc	_	_
19	sabbath	sabbath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
22	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
27	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	shall	shall	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
30	well	well	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	ccomp	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | future | thou |  | man |  | today | wherefore *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present | door | new moon nor sabbath |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | servant |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | shall | door |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |

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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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וַיֹּ֗אמֶר מַ֠דּוּעַ אַ֣תְּ הֹלֶ֤כֶת אֵלָיו֙ הַיּ֔וֹם לֹֽא־חֹ֖דֶשׁ וְלֹ֣א שַׁבָּ֑ת וַתֹּ֖אמֶר שָׁלֽוֹם׃

[2 Kings 4:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.23/)

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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:102` 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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