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title: 2 Kings 6:16 (JPS 1917) — And he answered: 'Fear not: for they that are with us are more than… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he answered: 'Fear not: for they that are with us are more than they that are with them.' Who acts: king, servants. 2 Kings 6:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 6:16 · JPS 1917

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And he answered: 'Fear not: for they that are with us are more than they that are with them.'

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**Who acts:** king, servants · **What happens:** answer, not fear, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 6:16 · 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 (king, servants), 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:179
# text = And he answered: 'Fear not: for they that are with us are more than they that are with them.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	advcl	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **fear** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with us | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | servants *= servant* |  |  |  |  | than chariots *= chariot*; more *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with chariots *= chariot* | 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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וַיֹּ֖אמֶר אַל־תִּירָ֑א כִּ֤י רַבִּים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אִתָּ֔נוּ מֵאֲשֶׁ֖ר אוֹתָֽם׃

[2 Kings 6:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.16/)

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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:179` 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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