--- title: 2 Kings 12:6 (JPS 1917) — let the priests take it to them, every man from him that bestoweth i… · tree and pragmatics description: let the priests take it to them, every man from him that bestoweth it upon him; and they shall repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.' Who acts: priests, money. 2 Kings 12:6 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.369/) [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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/12/) / [12:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.12.6/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 12:6 · JPS 1917 let the priests take it to them, every man from him that bestoweth it upon him; and they shall repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.' **Who acts:** priests, money · **What happens:** let, take, bestow, repair, find, breach · **To what, where:** priest, money, breaches, breach, house This is 2 Kings 12:6 · 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 (priests, money), 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:369 # text = let the priests take it to them, every man from him that bestoweth it upon him; and they shall repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.' 1 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 priests priest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nsubj _ _ 4 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nmod _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 bestoweth bestow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 upon upon ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 repair repair VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 breaches breach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 wheresoever wheresoever ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 30 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 31 det _ _ 31 breach breach NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 advcl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 36 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | infinitive | the priests | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | infinitive | the priests *not said here* | priest | money | | | every man from man *obl:unmarked* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument they=Theme it=Destination | | 3 | **bestow** | present | | priest | | | | upon man | tree rules | | 4 | **repair** | shall | money | the breaches of the house | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent breach=Patient | | 5 | **find** | shall · passive | | any breach | | | | wheresoever *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 6 | **breach** | | | the house | | | | | nom breach «act transitive»: of=patient | 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} יִקְח֤וּ לָהֶם֙ הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים אִ֖ישׁ מֵאֵ֣ת מַכָּר֑וֹ וְהֵ֗ם יְחַזְּקוּ֙ אֶת־בֶּ֣דֶק הַבַּ֔יִת לְכֹ֛ל אֲשֶׁר־יִמָּצֵ֥א שָׁ֖ם בָּֽדֶק׃פ [2 Kings 12:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.12.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:369` 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 12:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.368/) - next →: [2 Kings 12:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.370/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 12:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.12.6/)