--- title: 2 Kings 8:4 (JPS 1917) — Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God,… · tree and pragmatics description: Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying: 'Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.' Who acts: king, I, Elisha. 2 Kings 8:4 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.225/) [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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/8/) / [8:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.8.4/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 8:4 · JPS 1917 Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying: 'Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.' **Who acts:** king, I, Elisha · **What happens:** talk, say, tell, pray, do · **To what, where:** great things, me, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Kings 8:4 · 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, I, Elisha), 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:225 # text = Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying: 'Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.' 1 Now now ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Gehazi Gehazi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 advcl _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 24 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 29 det:predet _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 obj _ _ 31 Elisha Elisha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 29 acl:relcl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 35 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | past · progressive | the king | | | | now | with Gehazi | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with gehazi=Co-Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the king *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | all great things | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient thing=Topic | | 4 | **pray** | present | I | thee | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **do** | present · perfect | Elisha | all great things | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | 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} וְהַמֶּ֗לֶךְ מְדַבֵּר֙ אֶל־גֵּ֣חֲזִ֔י נַ֥עַר אִישׁ־הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים לֵאמֹ֑ר סַפְּרָה־נָּ֣א לִ֔י אֵ֥ת כָּל־הַגְּדֹל֖וֹת אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂ֥ה אֱלִישָֽׁע׃ [2 Kings 8:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.8.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:225` 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 8:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.224/) - next →: [2 Kings 8:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.226/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 8:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.8.4/)