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title: 2 Kings 5:23 (JPS 1917) — And Naaman said: 'Be content, take two talents.' And he urged him, a… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Kings 5:23 · JPS 1917

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And Naaman said: 'Be content, take two talents.' And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of raiment, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bore them before him.

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**Who acts:** Naaman, talents, raiment · **What happens:** say, be, take, urge, bound, lay · **To what, where:** two talents, master, two bags, talents, two, changes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 5:23 · 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 (Naaman, talents, raiment), 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:154
# text = And Naaman said: 'Be content, take two talents.' And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of raiment, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bore them before him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Naaman	Naaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	talents	talent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	urged	urge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	bound	bound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	talents	talent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	raiment	raiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
47	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	before	before	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obl	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: agree
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- 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 | Naaman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | content *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive |  | two talents |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talent=Theme |
| 4 | **urge** | past | Naaman |  | master |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 5 | **bound** | past | Naaman *not said here* | two talents of silver |  | two bags |  | with two changes of raiment | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location talent=Theme |
| 6 | **lay** | past | Naaman *not said here* | talents *= talent* |  | two of Naaman's servants |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme upon two=Destination |
| 7 | **bear** | past | talents *= talent* | changes *= change* |  |  | before Naaman |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 8 | **change** |  | raiment |  |  |  |  |  | nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר נַעֲמָ֔ן הוֹאֵ֖ל קַ֣ח כִּכָּרָ֑יִם וַיִּפְרָץ־בּ֗וֹ וַיָּצַר֩ כִּכְּרַ֨יִם כֶּ֜סֶף בִּשְׁנֵ֣י חֲרִטִ֗ים וּשְׁתֵּי֙ חֲלִפ֣וֹת בְּגָדִ֔ים וַיִּתֵּן֙ אֶל־שְׁנֵ֣י נְעָרָ֔יו וַיִּשְׂא֖וּ לְפָנָֽיו׃

[2 Kings 5:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.5.23/)

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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:154` of Mova's parse database.

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