---
title: 2 Kings 4:42 (JPS 1917) — And there came a man from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God… · tree and pragmatics
description: And there came a man from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of corn in his sack. Who acts: man. 2 Kings 4:42 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.126/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [2 Kings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/) / [chapter 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/4/) / [4:42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.42/) / JPS 1

# 2 Kings 4:42 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
And there came a man from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of corn in his sack.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** come, bring · **To what, where:** bread, man

<!-- .vabout -->
This is 2 Kings 4:42 · 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 (man), 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:126
# text = And there came a man from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of corn in his sack.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Baal	Baal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
9	shalishah	Baal-shalishah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	iobj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a man from Baal shalishah |  |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | past | a man from Baal shalishah *not said here* | bread of the first fruits and twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of corn in man's sack | the man of God |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent man=Destination bread=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
וְאִ֨ישׁ בָּ֜א מִבַּ֣עַל שָׁלִ֗שָׁה בַּ֣עַל שָׁלִ֗שָׁה וַיָּבֵא֩ לְאִ֨ישׁ הָאֱלֹהִ֜ים לֶ֤חֶם בִּכּוּרִים֙ עֶשְׂרִֽים־לֶ֣חֶם שְׂעֹרִ֔ים וְכַרְמֶ֖ל בְּצִקְלֹנ֑וֹ וַיֹּ֕אמֶר תֵּ֥ן לָעָ֖ם וְיֹאכֵֽלוּ׃

[2 Kings 4:42: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.42/)

<!-- .note -->
This verse in JPS 1917:

<!-- .ens -->
1. **And there came a man from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of corn in his sack.**
2. [And he said: 'Give unto the people, that they may eat.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.127/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:126` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [2 Kings 4:41 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.125/)
- next →: [2 Kings 4:42 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.127/)
- ↑ back to [2 Kings 4:42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.42/)