--- title: 2 Kings 10:13 (JPS 1917) — Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said: 'Who… · tree and pragmatics description: Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said: 'Who are ye?' And they answered: 'We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.' 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And they answered: 'We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.' **Who acts:** Jehu, ye, kings, We · **What happens:** meet, say, be, answer, go down, salute · **To what, where:** brethren, children · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Kings 10:13 · 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 (Jehu, ye, kings, We), 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:314 # text = Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said: 'Who are ye?' And they answered: 'We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.' 1 Jehu Jehu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 brethren brethren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 Ahaziah Ahaziah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 0 root _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 18 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nsubj _ _ 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 20 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 21 And and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 25 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 26 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 brethren brethren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 ccomp _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Ahaziah Ahaziah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 36 down down ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 salute salute VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 conj _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 51 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | past | Jehu | | | | | with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with brethren=Co-Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jehu *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | ye | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | kings *= king* | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | We | the brethren | | | | of Ahaziah | tree rules | | 6 | **go down** | present | we | | | | | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **salute** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | the children of the king and the children of the queen | | | | | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic | 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} וְיֵה֗וּא מָצָא֙ אֶת־אֲחֵי֙ אֲחַזְיָ֣הוּ מֶֽלֶךְ־יְהוּדָ֔ה וַיֹּ֖אמֶר מִ֣י אַתֶּ֑ם וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ אֲחֵ֤י אֲחַזְיָ֙הוּ֙ אֲנַ֔חְנוּ וַנֵּ֛רֶד לִשְׁל֥וֹם בְּנֵֽי־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ וּבְנֵ֥י הַגְּבִירָֽה׃ [2 Kings 10:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.10.13/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:314` 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. - ← previous: [2 Kings 10:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.313/) - next →: [2 Kings 10:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.315/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 10:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.10.13/)