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title: 2 Kings 2:14 (JPS 1917) — And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the w… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said: 'Where is the LORD, the God of Elijah?' and when he also had smitten the waters, they were divided hither and thither; and Elisha went over. Who acts: Elijah, mantle, Elisha. 2 Kings 2:14 in JPS 1917 with its depend
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# 2 Kings 2:14 · JPS 1917

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And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said: 'Where is the LORD, the God of Elijah?' and when he also had smitten the waters, they were divided hither and thither; and Elisha went over.

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**Who acts:** Elijah, mantle, Elisha · **What happens:** take, fall, smote, say, be, smite · **To what, where:** mantle, waters, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 2:14 · 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, mantle, Elisha), 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:36
# text = And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said: 'Where is the LORD, the God of Elijah?' and when he also had smitten the waters, they were divided hither and thither; and Elisha went over.
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	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	smote	smote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
34	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	38	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	also	also	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	smitten	smite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	44	advcl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
42	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
45	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	45	conj	_	_
48	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	Elisha	Elisha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
51	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
52	over	over	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Elijah | the mantle of Elijah |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantle=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the mantle of Elijah |  |  |  |  | from Elijah | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from he=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **smote** | past | Elijah *not said here* | the waters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Elijah *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **smite** | past · perfect | Elijah | the waters |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus water=Experiencer |
| 7 | **divide** | past · passive |  | waters *= water* |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 8 | **go over** | past | Elisha |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |

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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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וַיִּקַּח֩ אֶת־אַדֶּ֨רֶת אֵלִיָּ֜הוּ אֲשֶׁר־נָפְלָ֤ה מֵֽעָלָיו֙ וַיַּכֶּ֣ה אֶת־הַמַּ֔יִם וַיֹּאמַ֕ר אַיֵּ֕ה יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י אֵלִיָּ֑הוּ אַף־ה֣וּא ׀ וַיַּכֶּ֣ה אֶת־הַמַּ֗יִם וַיֵּֽחָצוּ֙ הֵ֣נָּה וָהֵ֔נָּה וַֽיַּעֲבֹ֖ר אֱלִישָֽׁע׃

[2 Kings 2:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.2.14/)

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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:36` of Mova's parse database.

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