--- title: 2 Kings 2:8 (JPS 1917) — And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the w… · tree and pragmatics description: And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground. 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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 (Elijah, sons), 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:30 # text = And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Elijah Elijah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 mantle mantle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 wrapped wrap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 together together ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 smote smote VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 divided divide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 21 hither hither ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 thither thither ADV RB _ 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 29 mark _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 fixed _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nmod _ _ 29 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 30 over over ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | Elijah | Elijah's mantle | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantle=Theme | | 2 | **wrap** | past | Elijah *not said here* | mantle | | | | together *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **smote** | past | Elijah *not said here* | the waters | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **divide** | past · passive | | sons *= son* | | | | hither *property* | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **go over** | past | sons *= son* | | | dry ground | | over *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location | 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} וַיִּקַּח֩ אֵלִיָּ֨הוּ אֶת־אַדַּרְתּ֤וֹ וַיִּגְלֹם֙ וַיַּכֶּ֣ה אֶת־הַמַּ֔יִם וַיֵּחָצ֖וּ הֵ֣נָּה וָהֵ֑נָּה וַיַּעַבְר֥וּ שְׁנֵיהֶ֖ם בֶּחָרָבָֽה׃ [2 Kings 2:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.2.8/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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