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title: 2 Kings 6:9 (JPS 1917) — And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying: 'Beware tha… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying: 'Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Arameans are coming down.' Who acts: man, thou, Arameans. 2 Kings 6:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 6:9 · JPS 1917

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And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying: 'Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Arameans are coming down.'

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**Who acts:** man, thou, Arameans · **What happens:** send, say, beware, not pass, come down · **To what, where:** place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 6:9 · 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 (man, thou, Arameans), 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:171
# text = And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying: 'Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Arameans are coming down.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Beware	beware	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
19	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	PDT	_	23	det:predet	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Arameans	Aramean	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
31	down	down	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the man of God |  |  |  |  | unto the king of Israel | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the man of God *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **beware** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **pass** | present | thou | such place |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Trajectory |
| 5 | **come down** | present · progressive | the Arameans |  |  |  |  | down, thither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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וַיִּשְׁלַ֞ח אִ֣ישׁ הָאֱלֹהִ֗ים אֶל־מֶ֤לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר הִשָּׁ֕מֶר מֵעֲבֹ֖ר הַמָּק֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה כִּֽי־שָׁ֖ם אֲרָ֥ם נְחִתִּֽים׃

[2 Kings 6:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.9/)

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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:171` 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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