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title: 2 Kings 1:14 (JPS 1917) — Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and consumed the two forme… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and consumed the two former captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let my life be precious in thy sight' Who acts: fire, life, thy. 2 Kings 1:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 1:14 · JPS 1917

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Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and consumed the two former captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let my life be precious in thy sight'

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**Who acts:** fire, life, thy · **What happens:** come down, consume, let, be, sight · **To what, where:** heaven, two former captains, life, sight

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This is 2 Kings 1:14 · 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 (fire, life, thy), 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:17
# text = Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and consumed the two former captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let my life be precious in thy sight'
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	consumed	consume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	captains	captain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	fifties	fifty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
24	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | past | fire |  |  | heaven; there |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from heaven=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **consume** | past | fire *not said here* | the two former captains of fifty |  |  |  | with life's fifties | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Asset |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | fire *not said here* | my life |  |  | now |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive | my life *not said here* |  |  | thy sight |  | precious *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sight** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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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הִ֠נֵּה יָ֤רְדָה אֵשׁ֙ מִן־הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וַ֠תֹּאכַל אֶת־שְׁנֵ֞י שָׂרֵ֧י הַחֲמִשִּׁ֛ים הָרִאשֹׁנִ֖ים וְאֶת־חֲמִשֵּׁיהֶ֑ם וְעַתָּ֕ה תִּיקַ֥ר נַפְשִׁ֖י בְּעֵינֶֽיךָ׃ס

[2 Kings 1:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.1.14/)

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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:17` 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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