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title: 2 Kings 9:8 (JPS 1917) — For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ah… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab every man-child, and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel. Who acts: whole house, I. 2 Kings 9:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 9:8 · JPS 1917

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For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab every man-child, and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel.

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**Who acts:** whole house, I · **What happens:** perish, cut off, shut up, leave · **To what, where:** man child, Ahab, Israel

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This is 2 Kings 9:8 · 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 (whole house, I), 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:264
# text = For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab every man-child, and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ahab	Ahab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Ahab	Ahab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	conj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	conj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perish** | shall | the whole house of Ahab |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **cut off** | future | I | every man child |  | Ahab |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent child=Theme from ahab=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **shut up** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **leave** | present · passive |  |  |  | Israel |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in israel=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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וְאָבַ֖ד כָּל־בֵּ֣ית אַחְאָ֑ב וְהִכְרַתִּ֤י לְאַחְאָב֙ מַשְׁתִּ֣ין בְּקִ֔יר וְעָצ֥וּר וְעָז֖וּב בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[2 Kings 9:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.8/)

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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:264` of Mova's parse database.

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