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title: 2 Kings 6:15 (JPS 1917) — And his servant said unto him: 'Alas, my master! how shall we do?' · tree and pragmatics
description: And his servant said unto him: 'Alas, my master! how shall we do?' Who acts: servant, we. 2 Kings 6:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 6:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And his servant said unto him: 'Alas, my master! how shall we do?'

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**Who acts:** servant, we · **What happens:** say, do · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 6:15 · 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 (servant, we), 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:178
# text = And his servant said unto him: 'Alas, my master! how shall we do?'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
9	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	vocative	_	_
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | king's servant |  |  |  |  | unto king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | shall | we |  |  |  |  | my master *vocative* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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וַ֠יַּשְׁכֵּם מְשָׁרֵ֨ת אִ֥ישׁ הָֽאֱלֹהִים֮ לָקוּם֒ וַיֵּצֵ֕א וְהִנֵּה־חַ֛יִל סוֹבֵ֥ב אֶת־הָעִ֖יר וְס֣וּס וָרָ֑כֶב וַיֹּ֨אמֶר נַעֲר֥וֹ אֵלָ֛יו אֲהָ֥הּ אֲדֹנִ֖י אֵיכָ֥ה נַֽעֲשֶֽׂה׃

[2 Kings 6:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.15/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, a host with horses and chariots was round about the city.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.177/)
2. **And his servant said unto him: 'Alas, my master! how shall we do?'**

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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:178` 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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