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title: 2 Kings 5:27 (JPS 1917) — The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy… · tree and pragmatics
description: The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever.' And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow. Who acts: leprosy. 2 Kings 5:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 5:27 · JPS 1917

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The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever.' And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

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**Who acts:** leprosy · **What happens:** cleave, go out · **To what, where:** leper, presence

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This is 2 Kings 5:27 · 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 (leprosy), 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:160
# text = The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever.' And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	leprosy	leprosy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Naaman	Naaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	cleave	cleave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	fixed	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	leper	leper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cleave** | shall | the leprosy of Naaman |  |  |  |  | unto thee; therefore *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **go out** | past | leprosy | a leper |  | Naaman's presence |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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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וְצָרַ֤עַת נַֽעֲמָן֙ תִּֽדְבַּק־בְּךָ֔ וּֽבְזַרְעֲךָ לְעוֹלָ֑ם וַיֵּצֵ֥א מִלְּפָנָ֖יו מְצֹרָ֥ע כַּשָּֽׁלֶג׃ס

[2 Kings 5:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.5.27/)

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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:160` of Mova's parse database.

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