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title: 2 Kings 9:3 (JPS 1917) — Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.' · tree and pragmatics
description: Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.' Who acts: you. 2 Kings 9:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 9:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.'

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** open, flee, not tarry · **To what, where:** door

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This is 2 Kings 9:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (you), 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:259
# text = Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	flee	flee	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	tarry	tarry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | imperative | you *not said here* | the door |  |  | then |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 2 | **flee** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **tarry** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

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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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וְלָקַחְתָּ֤ פַךְ־הַשֶּׁ֙מֶן֙ וְיָצַקְתָּ֣ עַל־רֹאשׁ֔וֹ וְאָֽמַרְתָּ֙ כֹּֽה־אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה מְשַׁחְתִּ֥יךָֽ לְמֶ֖לֶךְ אֶל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וּפָתַחְתָּ֥ הַדֶּ֛לֶת וְנַ֖סְתָּה וְלֹ֥א תְחַכֶּֽה׃

[2 Kings 9:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.3/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say: Thus saith the LORD: I have anointed thee king over Israel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.258/)
2. **Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.'**

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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:259` 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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