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title: 2 Kings 8:7 (JPS 1917) — And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Aram was sick… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Aram was sick; and it was told him, saying. 'The man of God is come hither.' Who acts: Elisha, hadad king, man. 2 Kings 8:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 8:7 · JPS 1917

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And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Aram was sick; and it was told him, saying. 'The man of God is come hither.'

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**Who acts:** Elisha, hadad king, man · **What happens:** come, be, tell, say · **To what, where:** Damascus, land, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 8:7 · 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 (Elisha, hadad king, man), 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:230
# text = And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Aram was sick; and it was told him, saying. 'The man of God is come hither.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Elisha	Elisha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
8	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
10	hadad	hadad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Aram	Aram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
27	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
33	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
35	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Elisha |  |  | Damascus |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to damascus=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | the hadad king of Aram |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | land | king |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **come** | present · passive | the man of God |  |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וַיָּבֹ֤א אֱלִישָׁע֙ דַּמֶּ֔שֶׂק וּבֶנ־הֲדַ֥דבֶנ־הֲדַ֥ד מֶֽלֶךְ־אֲרָ֖ם חֹלֶ֑ה וַיֻּגַּד־ל֣וֹ לֵאמֹ֔ר בָּ֛א אִ֥ישׁ הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים עַד־הֵֽנָּה׃

[2 Kings 8:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.8.7/)

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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:230` 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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