--- title: 2 Kings 1:13 (JPS 1917) — And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his kne… · tree and pragmatics description: And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him: 'O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight. 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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 (third captain, I, life, thy), 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:16 # text = And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him: 'O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 amod _ _ 4 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nmod _ _ 7 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 up up ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 knees knee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 before before ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Elijah Elijah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 besought beseech VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 26 unto unto ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 28 : : PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 29 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 30 O o INTJ UH _ 31 discourse _ _ 31 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 vocative _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 37 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 36 obj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 36 ccomp _ _ 40 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 48 det _ _ 48 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 50 nummod _ _ 49 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nmod _ _ 51 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 52 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 53 cop _ _ 53 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ _ 54 in in ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 56 nmod:poss _ _ 56 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ _ 57 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go up** | past | the third captain of fifty | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **come** | past | the third captain of fifty *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fall** | past | the third captain of fifty *not said here* | | | captain's knees | before Elijah | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location | | 4 | **beseech** | past | the third captain of fifty *not said here* | Elijah | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the third captain of fifty *not said here* | | | | | unto Elijah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **pray** | present | I | thee | | | | man of God *vocative* | tree rules | | 7 | **let** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** | infinitive | my life and the life thy fifty servants | | | thy sight | | precious *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **sight** | | thy | | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וַיָּ֗שָׁב וַיִּשְׁלַ֛ח שַׂר־חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים שְׁלִשִׁ֖ים וַחֲמִשָּׁ֑יו וַיַּ֡עַל וַיָּבֹא֩ שַׂר־הַחֲמִשִּׁ֨ים הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֜י וַיִּכְרַ֥ע עַל־בִּרְכָּ֣יו ׀ לְנֶ֣גֶד אֵלִיָּ֗הוּ וַיִּתְחַנֵּ֤ן אֵלָיו֙ וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר אֵלָ֔יו אִ֚ישׁ הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים תִּֽיקַר־נָ֣א נַפְשִׁ֗י וְנֶ֨פֶשׁ עֲבָדֶ֥יךָֽ אֵ֛לֶּה חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים בְּעֵינֶֽיךָ׃ [2 Kings 1:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.1.13/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [And again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.15/) 2. **And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him: 'O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:16` 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 1:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.15/) - next →: [2 Kings 1:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.17/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 1:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.1.13/)