--- title: 2 Kings 18:18 (JPS 1917) — And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim… · tree and pragmatics description: And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder. Who acts: Tartan, Eliakim, son. 2 Kings 18:18 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.569/) [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/) / [18:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.18/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 18:18 · JPS 1917 And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder. **Who acts:** Tartan, Eliakim, son · **What happens:** call, come out, be · **To what, where:** king, Tartan, household · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Kings 18:18 · 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 (Tartan, Eliakim, son), 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:569 # text = And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 11 expl _ _ 11 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 out out ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 15 Eliakim Eliakim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Hilkiah Hilkiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 over over ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 household household NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 acl:relcl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 Shebnah Shebnah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 scribe scribe NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 Joah Joah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 appos _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Asaph Asaph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 recorder recorder NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 appos _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | **call** | past · perfect | Tartan | | the king | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient | | 2 | **come out** | past | Eliakim and Shebnah and Joah | | Tartan | there | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is** | past | the son of Hilkiah | | | the household | | | 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} וַֽיִּקְרְאוּ֙ אֶל־הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וַיֵּצֵ֧א אֲלֵהֶ֛ם אֶלְיָקִ֥ים בֶּן־חִלְקִיָּ֖הוּ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עַל־הַבָּ֑יִת וְשֶׁבְנָה֙ הַסֹּפֵ֔ר וְיוֹאָ֥ח בֶּן־אָסָ֖ף הַמַּזְכִּֽיר׃ [2 Kings 18:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.18/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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