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title: 2 Kings 10:3 (JPS 1917) — look ye out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set him… · tree and pragmatics
description: look ye out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.' Who acts: ye. 2 Kings 10:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 10:3 · JPS 1917

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look ye out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.'

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** look out, set, fight · **To what, where:** best, armour, throne

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This is 2 Kings 10:3 · 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 (ye), 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:303
# text = look ye out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.'
1	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	best	best	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	meetest	meetest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	fight	fight	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look out** | infinitive | ye | the best of sons 's your master and meetest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | armour |  | throne 's armour's father |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on throne=Destination |
| 3 | **fight** | infinitive | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for house 's your master | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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וּרְאִיתֶ֞ם הַטּ֤וֹב וְהַיָּשָׁר֙ מִבְּנֵ֣י אֲדֹנֵיכֶ֔ם וְשַׂמְתֶּ֖ם עַל־כִּסֵּ֣א אָבִ֑יו וְהִֽלָּחֲמ֖וּ עַל־בֵּ֥ית אֲדֹנֵיכֶֽם׃

[2 Kings 10:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.10.3/)

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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:303` 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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