--- title: 2 Kings 6:2 (JPS 1917) — Let us go, we pray thee, unto the Jordan, and take thence every man… · tree and pragmatics description: Let us go, we pray thee, unto the Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell.' And he answered: 'Go ye.' Who acts: you, us, we, man. 2 Kings 6:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.162/) [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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/6/) / [6:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.2/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 6:2 · JPS 1917 Let us go, we pray thee, unto the Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell.' And he answered: 'Go ye.' **Who acts:** you, us, we, man, ye · **What happens:** let, go, pray, take, make, dwell · **To what, where:** us, thee, beam, man, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Kings 6:2 · 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 (you, us, we, 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:162 # text = Let us go, we pray thee, unto the Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell.' And he answered: 'Go ye.' 1 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 7 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 unto unto ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Jordan Jordan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 15 thence thence ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 iobj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 beam beam NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 23 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 iobj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 33 advmod _ _ 31 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 dwell dwell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl:relcl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 35 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 36 And and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 39 : : PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 40 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 41 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 38 ccomp _ _ 42 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 41 nsubj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 41 punct _ _ 44 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **pray** | present | we | thee | | | | unto the Jordan | tree rules | | 4 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a beam | every man | | | thence *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Theme beam=Destination | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | us | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | infinitive | us *not said here* | a place | us | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset we=Beneficiary place=Product | | 7 | **dwell** | may | we | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | man | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **go** | infinitive | ye | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} נֵֽלְכָה־נָּ֣א עַד־הַיַּרְדֵּ֗ן וְנִקְחָ֤ה מִשָּׁם֙ אִ֚ישׁ קוֹרָ֣ה אֶחָ֔ת וְנַעֲשֶׂה־לָּ֥נוּ שָׁ֛ם מָק֖וֹם לָשֶׁ֣בֶת שָׁ֑ם וַיֹּ֖אמֶר לֵֽכוּ׃ [2 Kings 6:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.2/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:162` 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 6:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.161/) - next →: [2 Kings 6:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.163/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 6:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.2/)