--- title: 2 Kings 6:33 (JPS 1917) — And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down u… · tree and pragmatics description: And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him; and the king said: 'Behold, this evil is of the LORD; why should I wait for the LORD any longer?' Who acts: king, messenger, evil, I. 2 Kings 6:33 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.197/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [2 Kings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/) / [chapter 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/6/) / [6:33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.33/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 6:33 · JPS 1917 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him; and the king said: 'Behold, this evil is of the LORD; why should I wait for the LORD any longer?' **Who acts:** king, messenger, evil, I · **What happens:** talk, come down, say, be, wait · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Kings 6:33 · 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, messenger, evil, I), 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:197 # text = And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him; and the king said: 'Behold, this evil is of the LORD; why should I wait for the LORD any longer?' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 2 while while SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 yet yet ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 talked talk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 behold behold INTJ UH _ 13 discourse _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 messenger messenger NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 down down ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 unto unto ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 23 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 24 Behold behold INTJ UH _ 31 discourse _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 det _ _ 27 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 ccomp _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 33 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 34 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 parataxis _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 any any ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 36 advmod _ _ 42 ? ? PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ _ 43 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: express - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=express | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | past | king | | | | yet | with sons *= son* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent | | 2 | **come down** | past | the messenger | | | | | unto king; down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | this evil | | | | | of the LORD | tree rules | | 5 | **wait** | should | I | | | | | for the LORD; long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} עוֹדֶ֙נּוּ֙ מְדַבֵּ֣ר עִמָּ֔ם וְהִנֵּ֥ה הַמַּלְאָ֖ךְ יֹרֵ֣ד אֵלָ֑יו וַיֹּ֗אמֶר הִנֵּֽה־זֹ֤את הָֽרָעָה֙ מֵאֵ֣ת יְהוָ֔ה מָֽה־אוֹחִ֥יל לַיהוָ֖ה עֽוֹד׃ס [2 Kings 6:33: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.33/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:197` 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. - ← previous: [2 Kings 6:32 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.196/) - next →: [2 Kings 7:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.198/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 6:33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.33/)