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title: 2 Kings 6:26 (JPS 1917) — And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried… · tree and pragmatics
description: And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying: 'Help, my lord, O king.' Who acts: king, woman. 2 Kings 6:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 6:26 · JPS 1917

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And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying: 'Help, my lord, O king.'

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**Who acts:** king, woman · **What happens:** pass by, cry, say, help · **To what, where:** wall, lord · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 6:26 · 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, woman), 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:190
# text = And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying: 'Help, my lord, O king.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
9	by	by	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
18	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
30	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	vocative	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request, form=imp, indirect=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass by** | past · progressive | the king of Israel |  |  | the wall |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon wall=Location |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | a woman |  |  | there |  | unto king | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **help** | infinitive |  |  | my lord |  |  | king *vocative* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Beneficiary |

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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 מֶ֣לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל עֹבֵ֖ר עַל־הַחֹמָ֑ה וְאִשָּׁ֗ה צָעֲקָ֤ה אֵלָיו֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר הוֹשִׁ֖יעָה אֲדֹנִ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

[2 Kings 6:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.26/)

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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:190` 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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