--- title: 2 Kings 18:7 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD was with him: whithersoever he went forth he prospered;… · tree and pragmatics description: And the LORD was with him: whithersoever he went forth he prospered; and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not. 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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 (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:556 # text = And the LORD was with him: whithersoever he went forth he prospered; and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 8 whithersoever whithersoever ADV WRB PronType=Rel 10 advmod _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 11 forth forth ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 prospered prosper VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 rebelled rebel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 18 against against ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Assyria Assyria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 served serve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 28 . . 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 | **is** | past | the LORD | | | | | with LORD | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | past | LORD | | | | | forth, whithersoever *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **prosper** | past | LORD | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **rebel** | past | LORD | | | | | against the king of Assyria | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against king=Maleficiary | | 5 | **not** **serve** | past | LORD *not said here* | LORD | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | 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} וְהָיָ֤ה יְהוָה֙ עִמּ֔וֹ בְּכֹ֥ל אֲשֶׁר־יֵצֵ֖א יַשְׂכִּ֑יל וַיִּמְרֹ֥ד בְּמֶֽלֶךְ־אַשּׁ֖וּר וְלֹ֥א עֲבָדֽוֹ׃ [2 Kings 18:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:556` 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 18:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.555/) - next →: [2 Kings 18:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.557/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 18:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.7/)