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title: 2 Kings 12:21 (JPS 1917) — And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and smote Joash at Be… · tree and pragmatics
description: And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and smote Joash at Beth-millo, on the way that goeth down to Silla. Who acts: servants, way. 2 Kings 12:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 12:21 · JPS 1917

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And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and smote Joash at Beth-millo, on the way that goeth down to Silla.

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**Who acts:** servants, way · **What happens:** arise, make, smite, go down · **To what, where:** conspiracy, Joash, Beth millo, Silla

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This is 2 Kings 12:21 · 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 (servants, way), 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:384
# text = And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and smote Joash at Beth-millo, on the way that goeth down to Silla.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	conspiracy	conspiracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	Joash	Joash	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	Beth	Beth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
17	millo	millo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	goeth	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	down	down	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Silla	Silla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | king's servants |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | king's servants *not said here* | a conspiracy |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset conspiracy=Product |
| 3 | **smite** | past | king's servants *not said here* | Joash |  | Beth millo |  | on the way | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent joash=Instrument on way=Patient |
| 4 | **go down** | present | the way |  | Silla |  |  | down *property* | 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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וַיָּקֻ֥מוּ עֲבָדָ֖יו וַיִּקְשְׁרֽוּ־קָ֑שֶׁר וַיַּכּוּ֙ אֶת־יוֹאָ֔שׁ בֵּ֥ית מִלֹּ֖א בֵּ֥ית מִלֹּ֖א הַיּוֹרֵ֥ד סִלָּֽא׃

[2 Kings 12:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.12.21/)

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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:384` 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.

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