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title: 2 Kings 6:12 (JPS 1917) — And one of his servants said: 'Nay, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: And one of his servants said: 'Nay, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bed-chamber.' Who acts: one, prophet, Elisha, thou. 2 Kings 6:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 6:12 · JPS 1917

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And one of his servants said: 'Nay, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bed-chamber.'

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**Who acts:** one, prophet, Elisha, thou · **What happens:** say, be, tell, speak · **To what, where:** Israel, words, king, bed chamber · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 6:12 · 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, prophet, Elisha, thou), 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:174
# text = And one of his servants said: 'Nay, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bed-chamber.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
18	Elisha	Elisha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
27	telleth	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obj	_	_
35	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	nsubj	_	_
36	speakest	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	41	nmod:poss	_	_
39	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	_
41	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
43	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | one of king's servants |  |  |  |  | my lord *vocative* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the prophet |  |  | Israel |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Elisha | the words | the king of Israel |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient word=Topic |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | thou | the words |  | thy bed chamber |  |  | tree rules |

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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 אַחַ֣ד מֵֽעֲבָדָ֔יו ל֖וֹא אֲדֹנִ֣י הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ כִּֽי־אֱלִישָׁ֤ע הַנָּבִיא֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יַגִּיד֙ לְמֶ֣לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֶת־הַ֨דְּבָרִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר תְּדַבֵּ֖ר בַּחֲדַ֥ר מִשְׁכָּבֶֽךָ׃

[2 Kings 6:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.12/)

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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:174` 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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