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title: 2 Kings 6:28 (JPS 1917) — And the king said unto her: 'What aileth thee?' And she answered: 'T… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the king said unto her: 'What aileth thee?' And she answered: 'This woman said unto me: Give thy son, that we may eat him to-day, and we will eat my son to-morrow. Who acts: king, thee, Israel, woman. 2 Kings 6:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 6:28 · JPS 1917

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And the king said unto her: 'What aileth thee?' And she answered: 'This woman said unto me: Give thy son, that we may eat him to-day, and we will eat my son to-morrow.

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**Who acts:** king, thee, Israel, woman, we · **What happens:** say, ail, answer, give, eat · **To what, where:** son, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 6:28 · 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, thee, Israel, 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:192
# text = And the king said unto her: 'What aileth thee?' And she answered: 'This woman said unto me: Give thy son, that we may eat him to-day, and we will eat my son to-morrow.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	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	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
10	aileth	ail	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
11	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
19	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
22	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
26	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	_
36	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
42	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	_
46	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl:unmarked	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=ask

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  |  |  | unto Israel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **ail** | present | thee |  |  |  |  |  | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient what=Experiencer |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Israel |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | this woman |  |  |  |  | unto me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **give** | infinitive |  | thy son |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme |
| 6 | **eat** | may | we | king |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 7 | **eat** | future | we | my son |  |  |  | to morrow | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |

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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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וַיֹּֽאמֶר־לָ֥הּ הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ מַה־לָּ֑ךְ וַתֹּ֗אמֶר הָאִשָּׁ֨ה הַזֹּ֜את אָמְרָ֣ה אֵלַ֗י תְּנִ֤י אֶת־בְּנֵךְ֙ וְנֹאכְלֶ֣נּוּ הַיּ֔וֹם וְאֶת־בְּנִ֖י נֹאכַ֥ל מָחָֽר׃

[2 Kings 6:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.28/)

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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:192` of Mova's parse database.

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