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title: 2 Kings 9:1 (JPS 1917) — And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and s… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said unto him: 'Gird up thy loins, and take this vial of oil in thy hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead. Who acts: Elisha. 2 Kings 9:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 9:1 · JPS 1917

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And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said unto him: 'Gird up thy loins, and take this vial of oil in thy hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.

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**Who acts:** Elisha · **What happens:** call, say, gird up, take, go · **To what, where:** one, loins, vial, hand, Ramoth gilead · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 9:1 · 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), 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:256
# text = And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said unto him: 'Gird up thy loins, and take this vial of oil in thy hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Elisha	Elisha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Gird	gird	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	loins	loin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	vial	vial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	Ramoth	Ramoth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	_
40	gilead	Ramoth-gilead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | Elisha | one of the sons of the prophets |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Elisha *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Elisha | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **gird up** | infinitive |  | thy loins |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive |  | this vial of oil |  | thy hand |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent vial=Value in hand=Location |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | Ramoth gilead |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ramoth-gilead=Initial\_Location |

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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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וֶאֱלִישָׁע֙ הַנָּבִ֔יא קָרָ֕א לְאַחַ֖ד מִבְּנֵ֣י הַנְּבִיאִ֑ים וַיֹּ֨אמֶר ל֜וֹ חֲגֹ֣ר מָתְנֶ֗יךָ וְ֠קַח פַּ֣ךְ הַשֶּׁ֤מֶן הַזֶּה֙ בְּיָדֶ֔ךָ וְלֵ֖ךְ רָמֹ֥ת גִּלְעָֽד רָמֹ֥ת גִּלְעָֽד׃

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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:256` 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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