--- title: 2 Kings 8:10 (JPS 1917) — And Elisha said unto him: 'Go, say unto him: Thou shalt surely recov… · tree and pragmatics description: And Elisha said unto him: 'Go, say unto him: Thou shalt surely recover; howbeit the LORD hath shown me that he shall surely die.' Who acts: Elisha, Thou, LORD. 2 Kings 8:10 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.233/) [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/) / [8:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.8.10/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 8:10 · JPS 1917 And Elisha said unto him: 'Go, say unto him: Thou shalt surely recover; howbeit the LORD hath shown me that he shall surely die.' **Who acts:** Elisha, Thou, LORD · **What happens:** say, go, recover, show, die · **To what, where:** me · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Kings 8:10 · 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, Thou, LORD), 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:233 # text = And Elisha said unto him: 'Go, say unto him: Thou shalt surely recover; howbeit the LORD hath shown me that he shall surely die.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Elisha Elisha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 11 unto unto ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nsubj _ _ 15 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 surely surely ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 recover recover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 19 howbeit howbeit ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 24 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 iobj _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 surely surely ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 31 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Elisha | | | | | unto Hazael | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **go** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | | | | unto Hazael | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **recover** | shall | Thou | | | | | surely *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **show** | present · perfect | the LORD | | me | | | howbeit *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **die** | shall | LORD | | | | | surely *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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} וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלָיו֙ אֱלִישָׁ֔ע לֵ֥ךְ אֱמָר־ל֖וֹ חָיֹ֣ה תִחְיֶ֑ה וְהִרְאַ֥נִי יְהוָ֖ה כִּֽי־מ֥וֹת יָמֽוּת׃ [2 Kings 8:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.8.10/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:233` 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 8:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.232/) - next →: [2 Kings 8:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.234/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 8:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.8.10/)