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title: 2 Kings 10:18 (JPS 1917) — And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them: 'Ahab… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them: 'Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much. Who acts: Jehu, Ahab. 2 Kings 10:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 10:18 · JPS 1917

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And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them: 'Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much.

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**Who acts:** Jehu, Ahab · **What happens:** gather, say, serve · **To what, where:** people, Baal, Ahab · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 10:18 · 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, Ahab), 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:319
# text = And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them: 'Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Jehu	Jehu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Ahab	Ahab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
17	Baal	Baal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	little	little	PRON	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	Jehu	Jehu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	much	much	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **gather** | past | Jehu | all people |  |  |  | together *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jehu *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **serve** | past | Ahab | Baal |  |  |  | little *obl:unmarked* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baal=Attribute |
| 4 | **serve** | future | Jehu | Ahab |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |

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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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וַיִּקְבֹּ֤ץ יֵהוּא֙ אֶת־כָּל־הָעָ֔ם וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵהֶ֔ם אַחְאָ֕ב עָבַ֥ד אֶת־הַבַּ֖עַל מְעָ֑ט יֵה֖וּא יַעַבְדֶ֥נּוּ הַרְבֵּֽה׃

[2 Kings 10:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.10.18/)

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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:319` 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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