--- title: 2 Kings 18:28 (JPS 1917) — Then Rab-shakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' lang… · tree and pragmatics description: Then Rab-shakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spoke, saying: 'Hear ye the word of the great king, the king of Assyria. Who acts: Rab, ye. 2 Kings 18:28 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.581/) [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/) / [18:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.28/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 18:28 · JPS 1917 Then Rab-shakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spoke, saying: 'Hear ye the word of the great king, the king of Assyria. **Who acts:** Rab, ye · **What happens:** stand, cry, speak, say, hear, word · **To what, where:** language, word, great king · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Kings 18:28 · 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 (Rab, ye), 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:581 # text = Then Rab-shakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spoke, saying: 'Hear ye the word of the great king, the king of Assyria. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 Rab Rab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 4 shakeh shakeh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 5 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Jews Jew PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 ' 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 xcomp _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 Hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 26 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nsubj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Assyria Assyria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | Rab | | | | then | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Rab *not said here* | | | the Jews's language | | with a loud voice | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in language=Location | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Rab *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Rab *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **hear** | infinitive | ye | the word of the great king | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | | 6 | **word** | | | the great king | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} וַֽיַּעֲמֹד֙ רַב־שָׁקֵ֔ה וַיִּקְרָ֥א בְקוֹל־גָּד֖וֹל יְהוּדִ֑ית וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר וַיֹּ֔אמֶר שִׁמְע֛וּ דְּבַר־הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ הַגָּד֖וֹל מֶ֥לֶךְ אַשּֽׁוּר׃ [2 Kings 18:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.28/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:581` 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 18:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.580/) - next →: [2 Kings 18:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.582/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 18:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.28/)