--- title: 2 Kings 9:13 (JPS 1917) — Then they hastened, and took every man his garment, and put it under… · tree and pragmatics description: Then they hastened, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the horn, saying: 'Jehu is king.' Who acts: dogs, Jehu. 2 Kings 9:13 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.269/) [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/) / [9:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.13/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 9:13 · JPS 1917 Then they hastened, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the horn, saying: 'Jehu is king.' **Who acts:** dogs, Jehu · **What happens:** hasten, take, put, blow, say, be · **To what, where:** garment, man, top, horn, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Kings 9:13 · 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, Jehu), 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:269 # text = Then they hastened, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the horn, saying: 'Jehu is king.' 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hastened hasten VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 iobj _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 garment garment NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 under under ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 blew blow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 30 : : PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 31 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 32 Jehu Jehu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 ccomp _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ _ 36 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hasten** | past | dogs *= dog* | | | | then | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **take** | past | dogs *= dog* *not said here* | man's garment | every man | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Theme garment=Destination | | 3 | **put** | past | dogs *= dog* *not said here* | garment | | the top of the stairs | | under man | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on top=Destination | | 4 | **blow** | past | dogs *= dog* *not said here* | the horn | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | dogs *= dog* *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | Jehu | king | | | | | tree rules | 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} וַֽיְמַהֲר֗וּ וַיִּקְחוּ֙ אִ֣ישׁ בִּגְד֔וֹ וַיָּשִׂ֥ימוּ תַחְתָּ֖יו אֶל־גֶּ֣רֶם הַֽמַּעֲל֑וֹת וַֽיִּתְקְעוּ֙ בַּשּׁוֹפָ֔ר וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ מָלַ֥ךְ יֵהֽוּא׃ [2 Kings 9:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.13/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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