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title: 2 Kings 6:31 (JPS 1917) — Then he said: 'God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he said: 'God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.' Who acts: king, God, head. 2 Kings 6:31 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 6:31 · JPS 1917

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Then he said: 'God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.'

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**Who acts:** king, God, head · **What happens:** say, do, stand · **To what, where:** me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 6:31 · 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, God, head), 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:195
# text = Then he said: 'God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Elisha	Elisha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Shaphat	Shaphat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
32	'	'	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | king |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | infinitive | God |  | me |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stand** *a condition, not said to happen* | shall | the head of Elisha |  |  |  | day | on king | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on he=Location |

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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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וַיֹּ֕אמֶר כֹּֽה־יַעֲשֶׂה־לִּ֥י אֱלֹהִ֖ים וְכֹ֣ה יוֹסִ֑ף אִֽם־יַעֲמֹ֞ד רֹ֣אשׁ אֱלִישָׁ֧ע בֶּן־שָׁפָ֛ט עָלָ֖יו הַיּֽוֹם׃

[2 Kings 6:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.31/)

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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:195` 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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