---
title: 2 Kings 9:21 (JPS 1917) — And Joram said: 'Make ready.' And they made ready his chariot. · tree and pragmatics
description: And Joram said: 'Make ready.' And they made ready his chariot. Who acts: Joram, loins. 2 Kings 9:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.278/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [9:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.21/) / JPS 1

# 2 Kings 9:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
And Joram said: 'Make ready.' And they made ready his chariot.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Joram, loins · **What happens:** say, make · **To what, where:** chariot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is 2 Kings 9:21 · 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 (Joram, loins), 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:278
# text = And Joram said: 'Make ready.' And they made ready his chariot.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Joram	Joram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Joram |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **make** | past | loins *= loin* | Joram's chariot |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chariot=Product |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוֹרָם֙ אֱסֹ֔ר וַיֶּאְסֹ֖ר רִכְבּ֑וֹ וַיֵּצֵ֣א יְהוֹרָ֣ם מֶֽלֶךְ־יִ֠שְׂרָאֵל וַאֲחַזְיָ֨הוּ מֶֽלֶךְ־יְהוּדָ֜ה אִ֣ישׁ בְּרִכְבּ֗וֹ וַיֵּֽצְאוּ֙ לִקְרַ֣את יֵה֔וּא וַיִּמְצָאֻ֔הוּ בְּחֶלְקַ֖ת נָב֥וֹת הַיִּזְרְעֵאלִֽי׃

[2 Kings 9:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.21/)

<!-- .note -->
This verse in JPS 1917:

<!-- .ens -->
1. **And Joram said: 'Make ready.' And they made ready his chariot.**
2. [And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and found him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.279/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:278` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [2 Kings 9:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.277/)
- next →: [2 Kings 9:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.279/)
- ↑ back to [2 Kings 9:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.21/)