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title: 2 Kings 6:3 (JPS 1917) — And one said: 'Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants.' A… · tree and pragmatics
description: And one said: 'Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants.' And he answered: 'I will go.' Who acts: one, I, man. 2 Kings 6:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 6:3 · JPS 1917

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And one said: 'Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants.' And he answered: 'I will go.'

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**Who acts:** one, I, man · **What happens:** say, be, pray, go, answer · **To what, where:** thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 6:3 · 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 (one, I, 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:163
# text = And one said: 'Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants.' And he answered: 'I will go.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|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	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
20	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | content *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pray** | present | I | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with thy servants | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with servant=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ הָֽאֶחָ֔ד ה֥וֹאֶל נָ֖א וְלֵ֣ךְ אֶת־עֲבָדֶ֑יךָ וַיֹּ֖אמֶר אֲנִ֥י אֵלֵֽךְ׃

[2 Kings 6:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.3/)

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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:163` 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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