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title: 2 Kings 5:21 (JPS 1917) — So Gehazi followed after Naaman. · tree and pragmatics
description: So Gehazi followed after Naaman. Who acts: Gehazi. 2 Kings 5:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 5:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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So Gehazi followed after Naaman.

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**Who acts:** Gehazi · **What happens:** follow

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This is 2 Kings 5:21 · 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 (Gehazi), 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:150
# text = So Gehazi followed after Naaman.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Gehazi	Gehazi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Naaman	Naaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | Gehazi |  |  |  | after Naaman |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after naaman=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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וַיִּרְדֹּ֥ף גֵּיחֲזִ֖י אַחֲרֵ֣י נַֽעֲמָ֑ן וַיִּרְאֶ֤ה נַֽעֲמָן֙ רָ֣ץ אַחֲרָ֔יו וַיִּפֹּ֞ל מֵעַ֧ל הַמֶּרְכָּבָ֛ה לִקְרָאת֖וֹ וַיֹּ֥אמֶר הֲשָׁלֽוֹם׃

[2 Kings 5:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.5.21/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **So Gehazi followed after Naaman.**
2. [And when Naaman saw one running after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said: 'Is all well?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.151/)

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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:150` 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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