--- title: 2 Kings 6:5 (JPS 1917) — But as one was felling a beam, the axe-head fell into the water; and… · tree and pragmatics description: But as one was felling a beam, the axe-head fell into the water; and he cried, and said: 'Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.' Who acts: one, axe head, head. 2 Kings 6:5 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.166/) [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/) / [6:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.5/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 6:5 · JPS 1917 But as one was felling a beam, the axe-head fell into the water; and he cried, and said: 'Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.' **Who acts:** one, axe head, head · **What happens:** fell, fall, cry, say, borrow · **To what, where:** beam, water · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Kings 6:5 · 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, axe head, head), 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:166 # text = But as one was felling a beam, the axe-head fell into the water; and he cried, and said: 'Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.' 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 felling fell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 beam beam NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 25 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 26 Alas alas INTJ UH _ 34 discourse _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 vocative _ _ 30 ! ! PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ 31 for for SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 borrowed borrow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 ccomp _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ _ 36 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, polarity=none, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fell** | past · progressive | one | a beam | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fall** | past | the axe head | | | | | into the water *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result | | 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | head | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | head *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **borrow** | past · passive | | beam | | | | my master *vocative* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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} וַיְהִ֤י הָֽאֶחָד֙ מַפִּ֣יל הַקּוֹרָ֔ה וְאֶת־הַבַּרְזֶ֖ל נָפַ֣ל אֶל־הַמָּ֑יִם וַיִּצְעַ֥ק וַיֹּ֛אמֶר אֲהָ֥הּ אֲדֹנִ֖י וְה֥וּא שָׁאֽוּל׃ [2 Kings 6:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.5/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:166` 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 6:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.165/) - next →: [2 Kings 6:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.167/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 6:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.5/)