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title: 2 Kings 9:21 (JPS 1917) — And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Joram king, loins. 2 Kings 9:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 9:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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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.

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**Who acts:** Joram king, loins · **What happens:** go out, meet, find · **To what, where:** Jehu, portion

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This is 2 Kings 9:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 king, 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:279
# text = 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.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	Joram	Joram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	Ahaziah	Ahaziah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	each	each	PRON	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nsubj:outer	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
25	Jehu	Jehu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Naboth	Naboth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Jezreelite	Jezreelite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **go out** | past | Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go out** | past | loins *= loin* |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive | loins *= loin* *not said here* | Jehu |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jehu=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **find** | past | loins *= loin* *not said here* | Jehu |  | the portion of Naboth |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |

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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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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/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And Joram said: 'Make ready.' And they made ready his chariot.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.278/)
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.**

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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:279` 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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