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title: 2 Kings 6:4 (JPS 1917) — And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood. · tree and pragmatics
description: And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood. Who acts: servants. 2 Kings 6:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 6:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.

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**Who acts:** servants · **What happens:** come, cut down · **To what, where:** Jordan, wood

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This is 2 Kings 6:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (servants), 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:165
# text = And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | servants *= servant* |  |  | the Jordan |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to jordan=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **cut down** | past | servants *= servant* | wood |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product |

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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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וַיֵּ֖לֶךְ אִתָּ֑ם וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ הַיַּרְדֵּ֔נָה וַֽיִּגְזְר֖וּ הָעֵצִֽים׃

[2 Kings 6:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.4/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [So he went with them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.164/)
2. **And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.**

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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:165` 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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