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title: 2 Kings 2:11 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold… · tree and pragmatics
description: And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, which parted them both assunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. Who acts: thing, sons, chariot, horses. 2 Kings 2:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and th
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# 2 Kings 2:11 · JPS 1917

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And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, which parted them both assunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

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**Who acts:** thing, sons, chariot, horses, Elijah · **What happens:** come, pass, go on, talk, appear, part · **To what, where:** sons, heaven

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This is 2 Kings 2:11 · 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 (thing, sons, chariot, horses), 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:33
# text = And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, which parted them both assunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
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	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	on	on	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	parted	part	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	both	both	ADV	RB	_	34	det	_	_
36	assunder	assunder	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
41	up	up	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
45	into	into	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | thing |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go on** | past | sons *= son* |  |  |  | still |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **talk** | past | sons *= son* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **appear** | past | a chariot of fire and horses of fire |  |  | there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **part** | past | horses of fire | sons *= son* |  |  |  | assunder *property* | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 7 | **go up** | past | Elijah |  |  | heaven |  | by a whirlwind | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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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וַיְהִ֗י הֵ֣מָּה הֹלְכִ֤ים הָלוֹךְ֙ וְדַבֵּ֔ר וְהִנֵּ֤ה רֶֽכֶב־אֵשׁ֙ וְס֣וּסֵי אֵ֔שׁ וַיַּפְרִ֖דוּ בֵּ֣ין שְׁנֵיהֶ֑ם וַיַּ֙עַל֙ אֵ֣לִיָּ֔הוּ בַּֽסְעָרָ֖ה הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃

[2 Kings 2:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.2.11/)

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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:33` of Mova's parse database.

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