--- title: 2 Kings 18:17 (JPS 1917) — And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of th… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Tartan, upper pool. 2 Kings 18:17 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.568/) [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/) / [18:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.17/) / JPS 3 # 2 Kings 18:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 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. **Who acts:** Tartan, upper pool · **What happens:** come up, come, stand, be · **To what, where:** highway This is 2 Kings 18:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 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 (Tartan, upper pool), 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:568 # text = 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. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 6 up up ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 conduit conduit NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 upper upper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 highway highway NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 acl:relcl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 fullers fuller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 ' ' PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come up** | past · passive | Tartan | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come** | past | Tartan | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stand** | past | Tartan *not said here* | | | | | by the conduit of the upper pool | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by conduit=Location | | 4 | **is** | present | the upper pool | | | the highway | | of the fullers's field | tree rules | 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} 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/) This verse in JPS 1917: 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.566/) 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.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:568` 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 18:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.567/) - next →: [2 Kings 18:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.569/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 18:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.17/)