--- title: 2 Kings 8:9 (JPS 1917) — So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of eve… · tree and pragmatics description: So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said: 'Thy son Ben-hadad king of Aram hath sent me to thee, saying: Shall I recover of this sickness?' 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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 (Hazael, son, I, forty camels), 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:232 # text = So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said: 'Thy son Ben-hadad king of Aram hath sent me to thee, saying: Shall I recover of this sickness?' 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 Hazael Hazael PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 even even ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 18 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Damascus Damascus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 camels camel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 ' 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 burden burden NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 32 before before ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 37 : : PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 38 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ _ 39 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 41 Ben Ben PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 appos _ _ 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ _ 43 hadad hadad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 flat _ _ 44 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 appos _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 Aram Aram PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 47 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 36 ccomp _ _ 49 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ _ 50 to to ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 48 obl _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 53 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 48 advcl _ _ 54 : : PUNCT : _ 57 punct _ _ 55 Shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 56 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 57 recover recover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 53 ccomp _ _ 58 of of ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 60 det _ _ 60 sickness sickness NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obl _ _ 61 ? ? PUNCT . _ 57 punct _ _ 62 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Hazael | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Hazael *not said here* | Hazael | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 3 | **take** | past | Hazael *not said here* | a present of every good thing of Damascus | | | | with Hazael | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme | | 4 | **come** | past | Hazael *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **stand** | past | Hazael *not said here* | | | | before Hazael | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Hazael *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **send** | present · perfect | Thy son | me | | thee | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to thou=Destination | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Thy son *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **recover** | shall | I | | | | | of this sickness | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **burden** | | forty camels | | | | | | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ חֲזָאֵל֮ לִקְרָאתוֹ֒ וַיִּקַּ֨ח מִנְחָ֤ה בְיָדוֹ֙ וְכָל־ט֣וּב דַּמֶּ֔שֶׂק מַשָּׂ֖א אַרְבָּעִ֣ים גָּמָ֑ל וַיָּבֹא֙ וַיַּעֲמֹ֣ד לְפָנָ֔יו וַיֹּ֗אמֶר בִּנְךָ֨בֶנ־הֲדַ֤דבֶנ־הֲדַ֤ד מֶֽלֶךְ־אֲרָם֙ שְׁלָחַ֤נִי אֵלֶ֙יךָ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר הַאֶחְיֶ֖ה מֵחֳלִ֥י זֶֽה׃ [2 Kings 8:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.8.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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