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title: 2 Kings 9:22 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said: 'Is it peace… · tree and pragmatics
description: And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said: 'Is it peace, Jehu?' And he answered: 'What peace, so long as the harlotries of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?' Who acts: Joram, chariot, harlotries. 2 Kings 9:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# 2 Kings 9:22 · JPS 1917

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And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said: 'Is it peace, Jehu?' And he answered: 'What peace, so long as the harlotries of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?'

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**Who acts:** Joram, chariot, harlotries · **What happens:** come, pass, see, say, be, answer · **To what, where:** chariot, Jehu, peace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 9:22 · 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 (Joram, chariot, harlotries), 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:280
# text = And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said: 'Is it peace, Jehu?' And he answered: 'What peace, so long as the harlotries of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
8	Joram	Joram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	Jehu	Jehu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	csubj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
17	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Jehu	Jehu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	vocative	_	_
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
24	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
29	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	30	det	_	_
30	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	ccomp	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
32	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	46	mark	_	_
33	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	fixed	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	harlotries	harlotry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	Jezebel	Jezebel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	witchcrafts	witchcraft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
44	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
45	so	so	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	advcl	_	_
47	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
48	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **come** | past |  | chariot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | Joram | Jehu |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jehu=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Joram |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | chariot | peace |  |  |  | Jehu *vocative* | tree rules |
| 6 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Joram |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | present | the harlotries of thy mother and Jezebel's witchcrafts |  |  |  |  | many *property* | tree rules |

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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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וַיְהִ֗י כִּרְא֤וֹת יְהוֹרָם֙ אֶת־יֵה֔וּא וַיֹּ֖אמֶר הֲשָׁל֣וֹם יֵה֑וּא וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ מָ֣ה הַשָּׁל֔וֹם עַד־זְנוּנֵ֞י אִיזֶ֧בֶל אִמְּךָ֛ וּכְשָׁפֶ֖יהָ הָרַבִּֽים׃

[2 Kings 9:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.22/)

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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:280` of Mova's parse database.

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