--- title: 2 Kings 18:6 (JPS 1917) — For he cleaved to the LORD, he departed not from following Him, but… · tree and pragmatics description: For he cleaved to the LORD, he departed not from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses. Who acts: Hezekiah, LORD. 2 Kings 18:6 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.555/) [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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/18/) / [18:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.6/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 18:6 · JPS 1917 For he cleaved to the LORD, he departed not from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses. **Who acts:** Hezekiah, LORD · **What happens:** cleave, not depart, follow, keep, command · **To what, where:** Hezekiah, commandments, Moses · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Kings 18:6 · 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 (Hezekiah, 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:555 # text = For he cleaved to the LORD, he departed not from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses. 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 cleaved cleave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 departed depart VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 11 from from SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 following follow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 13 Him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 commandments commandment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 obj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 24 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 iobj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **cleave** | past | Hezekiah | | | | | to the LORD *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to lord=Result | | 2 | **not** **depart** | past | Hezekiah | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **follow** | gerund | Hezekiah *not said here* | Hezekiah | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | past | Hezekiah *not said here* | Hezekiah's commandments | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commandment=Theme | | 5 | **command** | past | the LORD | Hezekiah's commandments | Moses | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **command** | | Hezekiah | | | | | | nom commandment «communication transitive»: 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} וַיִּדְבַּק֙ בַּֽיהוָ֔ה לֹא־סָ֖ר מֵאַֽחֲרָ֑יו וַיִּשְׁמֹר֙ מִצְוֺתָ֔יו אֲשֶׁר־צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־מֹשֶֽׁה׃ [2 Kings 18:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:555` 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 18:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.554/) - next →: [2 Kings 18:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.556/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 18:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.6/)