--- title: 2 Kings 18:23 (JPS 1917) — Now therefore, I pray thee, make a wager with my master the king of… · tree and pragmatics description: Now therefore, I pray thee, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. Who acts: I, thou. 2 Kings 18:23 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.575/) [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/) / [18:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.23/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 18:23 · JPS 1917 Now therefore, I pray thee, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. **Who acts:** I, thou · **What happens:** pray, make, give, be, set · **To what, where:** thee, wager, thousand horses, part, riders This is 2 Kings 18:23 · 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 (I, thou), 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:575 # text = Now therefore, I pray thee, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 wager wager NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Assyria Assyria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 23 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 iobj _ _ 24 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 compound _ _ 25 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 31 nsubj _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 cop _ _ 31 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 advcl _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 37 riders rider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 38 upon upon ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pray** | present | I | thee | | | now | therefore *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | infinitive | I *not said here* | a wager | | | | with my master | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wager=Product | | 3 | **give** | future | I | thousand horses | thee | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient horse=Theme | | 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | thou | | | thy part | | able *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **set** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | riders | | | | upon riders *= rider* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent rider=Theme upon they=Destination | 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} וְעַתָּה֙ הִתְעָ֣רֶב נָ֔א אֶת־אֲדֹנִ֖י אֶת־מֶ֣לֶךְ אַשּׁ֑וּר וְאֶתְּנָ֤ה לְךָ֙ אַלְפַּ֣יִם סוּסִ֔ים אִם־תּוּכַ֕ל לָ֥תֶת לְךָ֖ רֹכְבִ֥ים עֲלֵיהֶֽם׃ [2 Kings 18:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.23/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:575` 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 18:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.574/) - next →: [2 Kings 18:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.576/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 18:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.23/)