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title: 2 Kings 9:19 (JPS 1917) — Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, and said:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, and said: 'Thus saith the king: Is it peace?' And Jehu answered: 'What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.' Who acts: Jehu, king, horseback, thou. 2 Kings 9:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# 2 Kings 9:19 · JPS 1917

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Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, and said: 'Thus saith the king: Is it peace?' And Jehu answered: 'What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.'

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**Who acts:** Jehu, king, horseback, thou · **What happens:** send out, come, say, be, answer, do · **To what, where:** second, horseback, loins, peace, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 9:19 · 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 (Jehu, king, horseback, thou), 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:276
# text = Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, and said: 'Thus saith the king: Is it peace?' And Jehu answered: 'What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	second	second	ADJ	JJ	NumType=Ord	3	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	horseback	horseback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
19	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	saith	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
24	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
29	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	Jehu	Jehu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	_
34	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	38	obj	_	_
35	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
36	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	nsubj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	ccomp	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
41	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	_
42	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	parataxis	_	_
43	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	42	obj	_	_
44	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	42	punct	_	_
47	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send out** | past | Jehu | a second |  | horseback | then |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent second=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past |  |  | loins *= loin* |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jehu *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | horseback | peace |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Jehu |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **do** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | with peace | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 8 | **turn** | infinitive |  | thee |  |  |  | behind me | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |

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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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וַיִּשְׁלַ֗ח רֹכֵ֣ב סוּס֮ שֵׁנִי֒ וַיָּבֹ֣א אֲלֵהֶ֔ם וַיֹּ֛אמֶר כֹּֽה־אָמַ֥ר הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ שָׁל֑וֹם וַיֹּ֧אמֶר יֵה֛וּא מַה־לְּךָ֥ וּלְשָׁל֖וֹם סֹ֥ב אֶֽל־אַחֲרָֽי׃

[2 Kings 9:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.19/)

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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:276` 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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