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title: 2 Kings 6:24 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass after this, that Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered… · tree and pragmatics
description: And it came to pass after this, that Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. Who acts: Ben king. 2 Kings 6:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 6:24 · JPS 1917

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And it came to pass after this, that Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.

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**Who acts:** Ben king · **What happens:** come, pass, gather, go up, besiege · **To what, where:** land, host, Samaria

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This is 2 Kings 6:24 · 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 (Ben king), 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:188
# text = And it came to pass after this, that Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
10	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
12	hadad	Hadad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Aram	Aram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	besieged	besiege	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
27	Samaria	Samaria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | land |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | after this |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **gather** | past | Ben king of Aram | Aram's host |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Theme |
| 4 | **go up** | past | Ben king of Aram *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **besiege** | past | Ben king of Aram *not said here* | Samaria |  |  |  |  | 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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וַֽיְהִי֙ אַחֲרֵי־כֵ֔ן וַיִּקְבֹּ֛ץ בֶּנ־הֲדַ֥דבֶּנ־הֲדַ֥ד מֶֽלֶךְ־אֲרָ֖ם אֶת־כָּל־מַחֲנֵ֑הוּ וַיַּ֕עַל וַיָּ֖צַר עַל־שֹׁמְרֽוֹן׃

[2 Kings 6:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.24/)

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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:188` 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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