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title: 2 Kings 9:16 (JPS 1917) — So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. · tree and pragmatics
description: So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. Who acts: Jehu, Joram. 2 Kings 9:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 9:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there.

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**Who acts:** Jehu, Joram · **What happens:** ride, go, lie · **To what, where:** chariot, Jezreel

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This is 2 Kings 9:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (Jehu, Joram), 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:272
# text = So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Jehu	Jehu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Jezreel	Jezreel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	Joram	Joram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **ride** | past | Jehu |  |  | a chariot |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | past | Jehu *not said here* |  |  | Jezreel |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to jezreel=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **lie** | past | Joram |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: 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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וַיִּרְכַּ֤ב יֵהוּא֙ וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ יִזְרְעֶ֔אלָה כִּ֥י יוֹרָ֖ם שֹׁכֵ֣ב שָׁ֑מָּה וַֽאֲחַזְיָה֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ יְהוּדָ֔ה יָרַ֖ד לִרְא֥וֹת אֶת־יוֹרָֽם׃

[2 Kings 9:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.16/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there.**
2. [And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.273/)

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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:272` 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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