--- title: 2 Kings 15:5 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of… · tree and pragmatics description: And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a house set apart. Who acts: LORD. 2 Kings 15:5 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.451/) [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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/15/) / [15:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.15.5/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 15:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a house set apart. **Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** smote, be, dwell, set apart, die · **To what, where:** king, leper, house This is 2 Kings 15:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (LORD), 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:451 # text = And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a house set apart. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 smote smote VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 leper leper NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 advcl _ _ 14 unto unto ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 dwelt dwell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 27 apart apart ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smote** | past | the LORD | the king | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | past | LORD | a leper | | | day | | tree rules | | 3 | **dwell** | past | the LORD *not said here* | | | a house | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | | 4 | **set apart** | participle | | a house *not said here* | | | | apart *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **die** | | LORD | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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} וַיְנַגַּ֨ע יְהוָ֜ה אֶת־הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ וַיְהִ֤י מְצֹרָע֙ עַד־י֣וֹם מֹת֔וֹ וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב בְּבֵ֣ית הַחָפְשִׁ֑ית וְיוֹתָ֤ם בֶּן־הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ עַל־הַבַּ֔יִת שֹׁפֵ֖ט אֶת־עַ֥ם הָאָֽרֶץ׃ [2 Kings 15:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.15.5/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a house set apart.** 2. [And Jotham the king's son was over the household, judging the people of the land.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.452/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:451` 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 15:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.450/) - next →: [2 Kings 15:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.452/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 15:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.15.5/)