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title: 2 Kings 4:28 (JPS 1917) — Then she said: 'Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say: Do not… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she said: 'Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say: Do not deceive me?' Who acts: servant, I. 2 Kings 4:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 4:28 · JPS 1917

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Then she said: 'Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say: Do not deceive me?'

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**Who acts:** servant, I · **What happens:** say, desire, not say, not deceive · **To what, where:** son, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 4:28 · 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 (servant, 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:2KI:109
# text = Then she said: 'Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say: Do not deceive me?'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|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	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
6	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	desire	desire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	deceive	deceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed indirect=1, act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | servant |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **desire** | past · do-support | I | a son of my lord |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot son=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **deceive** | infinitive · do-support |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |

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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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וַתֹּ֕אמֶר הֲשָׁאַ֥לְתִּי בֵ֖ן מֵאֵ֣ת אֲדֹנִ֑י הֲלֹ֣א אָמַ֔רְתִּי לֹ֥א תַשְׁלֶ֖ה אֹתִֽי׃

[2 Kings 4:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.28/)

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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:109` 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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