--- title: 2 Kings 10:24 (JPS 1917) — Now Jehu had appointed him fourscore men without, and said: 'If any… · tree and pragmatics description: Now Jehu had appointed him fourscore men without, and said: 'If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, his life shall be for the life of him.' Who acts: Jehu, I, any, life. 2 Kings 10:24 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.327/) [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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/10/) / [10:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.10.24/) / JPS 2 # 2 Kings 10:24 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 Now Jehu had appointed him fourscore men without, and said: 'If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, his life shall be for the life of him.' **Who acts:** Jehu, I, any, life · **What happens:** appoint, say, bring, escape, be · **To what, where:** fourscore men, house, men, hands · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Kings 10:24 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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, I, any, life), 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:327 # text = Now Jehu had appointed him fourscore men without, and said: 'If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, his life shall be for the life of him.' 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 Jehu Jehu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 appointed appoint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 fourscore fourscore NUM CD NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 without without ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 13 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 14 If if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 15 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 25 nsubj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 obj _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 escape escape VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 29 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 ccomp _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 37 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, polarity=none, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appoint** | past · perfect | Jehu | fourscore men | house | | now | without *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme man=Attribute | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jehu *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bring** | present | I | the men | | your hands | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent whom=Theme into hand=Destination | | 4 | **escape** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | any | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | shall | Jehu's life | | | | | for the life; of Jehu | 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} וַיָּבֹ֕אוּ לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת זְבָחִ֣ים וְעֹל֑וֹת וְיֵה֞וּא שָׂם־ל֤וֹ בַחוּץ֙ שְׁמֹנִ֣ים אִ֔ישׁ וַיֹּ֗אמֶר הָאִ֤ישׁ אֲשֶׁר־יִמָּלֵט֙ מִן־הָאֲנָשִׁ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֲנִי֙ מֵבִ֣יא עַל־יְדֵיכֶ֔ם נַפְשׁ֖וֹ תַּ֥חַת נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃ [2 Kings 10:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.10.24/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt-offerings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.326/) 2. **Now Jehu had appointed him fourscore men without, and said: 'If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, his life shall be for the life of him.'** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:327` 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 10:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.326/) - next →: [2 Kings 10:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.328/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 10:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.10.24/)