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title: 2 Kings 18:17 (JPS 1917) — And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rab-shakeh fro… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army unto Jerusalem. Who acts: king. 2 Kings 18:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 18:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3

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And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army unto Jerusalem.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** send · **To what, where:** Tartan, king Hezekiah, Lachish

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This is 2 Kings 18:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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), 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:566
# text = And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army unto Jerusalem.
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	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Tartan	Tartan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	Rab	Rab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	saris	saris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	Rab	Rab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
15	shakeh	shakeh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Lachish	Lachish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Hezekiah	Hezekiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
25	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the king of Assyria | Tartan and Rab saris and Rab shakeh | king Hezekiah | Lachish |  | with a great army; unto Jerusalem | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent tartan=Theme from lachish=Initial\_Location to hezekiah=Destination |

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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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וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח מֶֽלֶךְ־אַשּׁ֡וּר אֶת־תַּרְתָּ֥ן וְאֶת־רַב־סָרִ֣יס ׀ וְאֶת־רַב־שָׁקֵ֨ה מִן־לָכִ֜ישׁ אֶל־הַמֶּ֧לֶךְ חִזְקִיָּ֛הוּ בְּחֵ֥יל כָּבֵ֖ד יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וַֽיַּעֲלוּ֙ וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם וַיַּעֲל֣וּ וַיָּבֹ֗אוּ וַיַּֽעַמְדוּ֙ בִּתְעָלַת֙ הַבְּרֵכָ֣ה הָֽעֶלְיוֹנָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֕ר בִּמְסִלַּ֖ת שְׂדֵ֥ה כוֹבֵֽס׃

[2 Kings 18:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.17/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army unto Jerusalem.**
2. [And they went up and came to Jerusalem.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.567/)
3. [And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fullers' field.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.568/)

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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:566` 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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