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title: 2 Kings 17:27 (JPS 1917) — Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying: 'Carry thither one of th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying: 'Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.' Who acts: king, ye, men. 2 Kings 17:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# 2 Kings 17:27 · JPS 1917

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Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying: 'Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.'

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**Who acts:** king, ye, men · **What happens:** command, say, carry, bring, let, go · **To what, where:** one, priests, men, king, manner · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 17:27 · 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 (king, ye, men), 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:535
# text = Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying: 'Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
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	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
12	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
18	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
19	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	19	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
29	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	iobj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
45	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | past | the king of Assyria |  |  |  | then |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the king of Assyria *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **carry** | infinitive |  | one of the priests |  |  |  | thither *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | past | ye | the priests |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent whom=Theme from thence=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **dwell** | infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **let** | infinitive |  | king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **teach** *speech: other* | infinitive | king *not said here* | the manner of the God of the land | men *= man* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient manner=Topic |

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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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וַיְצַ֨ו מֶֽלֶךְ־אַשּׁ֜וּר לֵאמֹ֗ר הֹלִ֤יכוּ שָׁ֙מָּה֙ אֶחָ֤ד מֵהַכֹּֽהֲנִים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הִגְלִיתֶ֣ם מִשָּׁ֔ם וְיֵלְכ֖וּ וְיֵ֣שְׁבוּ שָׁ֑ם וְיֹרֵ֕ם אֶת־מִשְׁפַּ֖ט אֱלֹהֵ֥י הָאָֽרֶץ׃

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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:535` 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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