--- title: 2 Kings 11:5 (JPS 1917) — And he commanded them, saying: 'This is the thing that ye shall do:… · tree and pragmatics description: And he commanded them, saying: 'This is the thing that ye shall do: a third part of you, that come in on the sabbath, and that keep the watch of the king's house — Who acts: son, This, ye, third part. 2 Kings 11:5 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.345/) [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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/11/) / [11:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.11.5/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 11:5 · JPS 1917 And he commanded them, saying: 'This is the thing that ye shall do: a third part of you, that come in on the sabbath, and that keep the watch of the king's house — **Who acts:** son, This, ye, third part, that · **What happens:** command, say, be, do, come in, keep · **To what, where:** captains, thing, sabbath, watch · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Kings 11:5 · 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 (son, This, ye, third part), 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:345 # text = And he commanded them, saying: 'This is the thing that ye shall do: a third part of you, that come in on the sabbath, and that keep the watch of the king's house — 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 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 9 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 ccomp _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 obj _ _ 14 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nsubj _ _ 15 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 20 amod _ _ 20 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 26 in in ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sabbath sabbath NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 watch watch NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 41 — - PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **command** | past | son | captains *= captain* | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | son *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | This | the thing | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **do** | shall | ye | the thing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | | 5 | **come in** | present | a third part of you | | | | on the sabbath | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sabbath=Location | | 6 | **keep** | present | that | the watch of the king's house | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme | 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} וַיְצַוֵּ֣ם לֵאמֹ֔ר זֶ֥ה הַדָּבָ֖ר אֲשֶׁ֣ר תַּעֲשׂ֑וּן הַשְּׁלִשִׁ֤ית מִכֶּם֙ בָּאֵ֣י הַשַּׁבָּ֔ת וְשֹׁ֣מְרֵ֔י מִשְׁמֶ֖רֶת בֵּ֥ית הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ [2 Kings 11:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.11.5/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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