--- title: 2 Kings 8:29 (JPS 1917) — And king Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which… · tree and pragmatics description: And king Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Who acts: king Joram, Arameans, Joram. 2 Kings 8:29 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.254/) [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/) / [8:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.8.29/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 8:29 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 And king Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. **Who acts:** king Joram, Arameans, Joram · **What happens:** return, heal, give, fight · **To what, where:** Jezreel, wounds, Joram, Ramah This is 2 Kings 8:29 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 Joram, Arameans, Joram), 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:254 # text = And king Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Joram Joram PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 healed heal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 xcomp _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Jezreel Jezreel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 wounds wound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 obj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Arameans aramean PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 acl:relcl _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Ramah Ramah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 when when SCONJ WRB _ 24 mark _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 25 against against ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 Hazael Hazael PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 flat _ _ 27 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Aram Aram PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **return** | past | king Joram | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **heal** | to-infinitive · passive | king Joram *not said here* | | | Jezreel | | of the wounds | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | | 3 | **give** | past · perfect | the Arameans | the wounds | Joram | Ramah | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient which=Theme at ramah=Asset | | 4 | **fight** | past | Joram | | | | | against Hazael king of Aram | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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} וַיָּשָׁב֩ יוֹרָ֨ם הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ לְהִתְרַפֵּ֣א בְיִזְרְעֶ֗אל מִן־הַמַּכִּים֙ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יַכֻּ֤הוּ אֲרַמִּים֙ בָּֽרָמָ֔ה בְּהִלָּ֣חֲמ֔וֹ אֶת־חֲזָהאֵ֖ל מֶ֣לֶךְ אֲרָ֑ם וַאֲחַזְיָ֨הוּ בֶן־יְהוֹרָ֜ם מֶ֣לֶךְ יְהוּדָ֗ה יָרַ֡ד לִרְא֞וֹת אֶת־יוֹרָ֧ם בֶּן־אַחְאָ֛ב בְּיִזְרְעֶ֖אל כִּֽי־חֹלֶ֥ה הֽוּא׃פ [2 Kings 8:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.8.29/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **And king Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Aram.** 2. [And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.255/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:254` 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 8:28 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.253/) - next →: [2 Kings 8:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.255/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 8:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.8.29/)