--- title: 2 Kings 9:12 (JPS 1917) — And they said: 'It is false; tell us now.' And he said: 'Thus and th… · tree and pragmatics description: And they said: 'It is false; tell us now.' And he said: 'Thus and thus spoke he to me, saying: Thus saith the LORD: I have anointed thee king over Israel.' Who acts: dogs, talk, Jehu, LORD. 2 Kings 9:12 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.268/) [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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/9/) / [9:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.12/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 9:12 · JPS 1917 And they said: 'It is false; tell us now.' And he said: 'Thus and thus spoke he to me, saying: Thus saith the LORD: I have anointed thee king over Israel.' **Who acts:** dogs, talk, Jehu, LORD, I · **What happens:** say, be, tell, speak, anoint · **To what, where:** us, me, king, thee, Israel · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Kings 9:12 · 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 (dogs, talk, Jehu, 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:268 # text = And they said: 'It is false; tell us now.' And he said: 'Thus and thus spoke he to me, saying: Thus saith the LORD: I have anointed thee king over Israel.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 11 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ _ 12 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 14 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 15 And and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 19 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 20 Thus thus ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 thus thus ADV RB _ 20 conj _ _ 23 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 28 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 29 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 30 Thus thus ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 34 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 anointed anoint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 ccomp _ _ 38 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 37 iobj _ _ 39 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 over over ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 43 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: disagree - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=disagree | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | dogs *= dog* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | talk | | | | | false *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | us | | now | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jehu | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Jehu | | me | | | thus *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Jehu *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD | | | | | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **anoint** | present · perfect | I | king | thee | Israel | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme king=Result | 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} וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ שֶׁ֔קֶר הַגֶּד־נָ֖א לָ֑נוּ וַיֹּ֗אמֶר כָּזֹ֤את וְכָזֹאת֙ אָמַ֤ר אֵלַי֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה מְשַׁחְתִּ֥יךָֽ לְמֶ֖לֶךְ אֶל־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ [2 Kings 9:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.12/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:268` 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 9:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.267/) - next →: [2 Kings 9:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.269/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 9:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.12/)