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title: 2 Kings 10:7 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took th… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Kings 10:7 · JPS 1917

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And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew them, even seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them unto him to Jezreel.

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**Who acts:** morrow, letter, letters · **What happens:** come, pass, take, slay, put, send · **To what, where:** sons, heads, baskets, Jezreel

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This is 2 Kings 10:7 · 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 (morrow, letter, letters), 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:307
# text = And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew them, even seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them unto him to Jezreel.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
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	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	csubj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	appos	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	baskets	basket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Jezreel	Jezreel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **come** | past | morrow |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | morrow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | the letter |  | sons *= son* |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **take** | past | letters *= letter* |  | the king's sons |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument son=Destination |
| 5 | **slay** | past | letters *= letter* *not said here* | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 6 | **put** | past | letters *= letter* *not said here* | sons's heads |  | baskets |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in basket=Destination |
| 7 | **send** | past | letters *= letter* *not said here* | sons *= son* | Jezreel |  |  | unto armour | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to jezreel=Destination |

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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 כְּבֹ֤א הַסֵּ֙פֶר֙ אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם וַיִּקְחוּ֙ אֶת־בְּנֵ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וַֽיִּשְׁחֲט֖וּ שִׁבְעִ֣ים אִ֑ישׁ וַיָּשִׂ֤ימוּ אֶת־רָֽאשֵׁיהֶם֙ בַּדּוּדִ֔ים וַיִּשְׁלְח֥וּ אֵלָ֖יו יִזְרְעֶֽאלָה׃

[2 Kings 10:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.10.7/)

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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:307` of Mova's parse database.

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