--- title: 2 Kings 4:30 (JPS 1917) — And the mother of the child said: 'As the LORD liveth, and as thy so… · tree and pragmatics description: And the mother of the child said: 'As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee.' And he arose, and followed her. 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And he arose, and followed her. **Who acts:** mother, LORD, soul, I · **What happens:** say, live, not leave, arise, follow · **To what, where:** thee, mother · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Kings 4:30 · 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 (mother, LORD, soul, 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:111 # text = And the mother of the child said: 'As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee.' And he arose, and followed her. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 10 As as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 liveth live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 liveth live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 25 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 24 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ 27 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 28 And and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 arose arise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 34 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the mother of the child | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **live** | present | the LORD | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **live** | present | thy soul | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **leave** | future | I | thee | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | | 5 | **arise** | past | LORD | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **follow** | past | LORD *not said here* | mother | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | 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} וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֵ֣ם הַנַּ֔עַר חַי־יְהוָ֥ה וְחֵֽי־נַפְשְׁךָ֖ אִם־אֶעֶזְבֶ֑ךָּ וַיָּ֖קָם וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ אַחֲרֶֽיהָ׃ [2 Kings 4:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.30/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:111` 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. - ← previous: [2 Kings 4:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.110/) - next →: [2 Kings 4:31 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.112/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 4:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.30/)