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title: 2 Kings 13:19 (JPS 1917) — And the man of God was wroth with him, and said: 'Thou shouldest hav… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Kings 13:19 · JPS 1917

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And the man of God was wroth with him, and said: 'Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Aram till thou hadst consumed it; whereas now thou shalt smite Aram but thrice.'

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**Who acts:** man, Thou · **What happens:** be, say, smite, consume · **To what, where:** Aram, ground · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 13:19 · 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 (man, Thou), 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:408
# text = And the man of God was wroth with him, and said: 'Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Aram till thou hadst consumed it; whereas now thou shalt smite Aram but thrice.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	wroth	wroth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
15	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
16	shouldest	should	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
18	smitten	smite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
19	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	conj	_	_
22	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
25	hadst	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
27	smitten	smite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
28	Aram	Aram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	nsubj	_	_
31	hadst	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
35	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
37	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	39	nsubj	_	_
38	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	smite	smite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
40	Aram	Aram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	thrice	thrice	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
44	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the man of God |  |  |  |  | with Elisha; wroth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the man of God *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **smite** | should · perfect | Thou |  |  |  | time |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **smite** | past · perfect | thou | Aram |  |  | then |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus aram=Experiencer |
| 5 | **consume** | past · perfect | thou | ground |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset |
| 6 | **smite** | shall | thou | Aram |  |  | now | thrice *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus aram=Experiencer |

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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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וַיִּקְצֹ֨ף עָלָ֜יו אִ֣ישׁ הָאֱלֹהִ֗ים וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ לְהַכּ֨וֹת חָמֵ֤שׁ אוֹ־שֵׁשׁ֙ פְּעָמִ֔ים אָ֛ז הִכִּ֥יתָ אֶת־אֲרָ֖ם עַד־כַּלֵּ֑ה וְעַתָּ֕ה שָׁלֹ֥שׁ פְּעָמִ֖ים תַּכֶּ֥ה אֶת־אֲרָֽם׃ס

[2 Kings 13:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.13.19/)

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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:408` 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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