--- title: 2 Kings 16:9 (JPS 1917) — And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him; and the king of Assyria… · tree and pragmatics description: And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin. 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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 (king), 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:496 # text = And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Assyria Assyria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 hearkened hearken VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 unto unto ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Assyria Assyria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 16 up up ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 against against ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Damascus Damascus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nmod _ _ 30 captive captive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Kir Kir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 slew slay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 36 Rezin Rezin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hearken** | past | the king of Assyria | | | | | unto Assyria | tree rules | | 2 | **go up** | past | the king of Assyria | | | | | against Damascus | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **take** | past | the king of Assyria *not said here* | gold | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **carry** | past | the king of Assyria *not said here* | the people of gold | Kir | | | captive *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme to kir=Destination | | 5 | **slay** | past | the king of Assyria *not said here* | Rezin | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rezin=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} וַיִּשְׁמַ֤ע אֵלָיו֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ אַשּׁ֔וּר וַיַּעַל֩ מֶ֨לֶךְ אַשּׁ֤וּר אֶל־דַּמֶּ֙שֶׂק֙ וַֽיִּתְפְּשֶׂ֔הָ וַיַּגְלֶ֖הָ קִ֑ירָה וְאֶת־רְצִ֖ין הֵמִֽית׃ [2 Kings 16:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.16.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:496` 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 16:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.495/) - next →: [2 Kings 16:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.497/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 16:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.16.9/)