--- title: 2 Kings 2:10 (JPS 1917) — And he said: 'Thou hast asked a hard thing; nevertheless, if thou se… · tree and pragmatics description: And he said: 'Thou hast asked a hard thing; nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.' Who acts: Elijah, Thou, thing. 2 Kings 2:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.32/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [2 Kings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/) / [chapter 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/2/) / [2:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.2.10/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 2:10 · JPS 1917 And he said: 'Thou hast asked a hard thing; nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.' **Who acts:** Elijah, Thou, thing · **What happens:** say, ask, see, take, be, not be · **To what, where:** hard thing, me, I, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Kings 2:10 · 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 (Elijah, Thou, thing), 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:32 # text = And he said: 'Thou hast asked a hard thing; nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 nsubj _ _ 7 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 13 nevertheless nevertheless ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nsubj _ _ 17 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 when when SCONJ WRB _ 22 mark _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 advcl _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 cop _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 3 ccomp _ _ 30 unto unto ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 29 obl _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 34 if if SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 not not ADV RB Polarity=Neg 41 advcl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 38 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 39 not not ADV RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 cop _ _ 41 so so ADV RB _ 29 conj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 43 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: offer - voice: character - polarity: neg - indirect: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Elijah | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · perfect | Thou | a hard thing | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | | 3 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thou | me | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 4 | **take** | present · passive | | I | | thee | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from thou=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **is** | shall | thing | | | | | unto thee; nevertheless, so *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **is** | shall | thing | | | | | so *property* | tree rules | 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} וַיֹּ֖אמֶר הִקְשִׁ֣יתָ לִשְׁא֑וֹל אִם־תִּרְאֶ֨ה אֹתִ֜י לֻקָּ֤ח מֵֽאִתָּךְ֙ יְהִֽי־לְךָ֣ כֵ֔ן וְאִם־אַ֖יִן לֹ֥א יִהְיֶֽה׃ [2 Kings 2:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.2.10/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:32` 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 2:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.31/) - next →: [2 Kings 2:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.33/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 2:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.2.10/)