--- title: 2 Kings 18:36 (JPS 1917) — But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for th… · tree and pragmatics description: But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, saying: 'Answer him not.' Who acts: people, commandment, king. 2 Kings 18:36 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.589/) [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/) / [18:36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.36/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 18:36 · JPS 1917 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, saying: 'Answer him not.' **Who acts:** people, commandment, king · **What happens:** hold, not answer, be, say, pacify, command · **To what, where:** peace, word, Jerusalem · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Kings 18:36 · 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 (people, commandment, 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:589 # text = But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, saying: 'Answer him not.' 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 iobj _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 15 for for SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 commandment commandment NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 Answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ 29 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: disagree - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | past | the people | people's peace | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme | | 2 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the people *not said here* | a word | Jerusalem | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme word=Eventuality | | 3 | **be** | past | the king's commandment | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the king's commandment *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | Jerusalem | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | | 6 | **pacify** | | people | | | | | | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **command** | | the king | | | | | | nom commandment «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וְהֶחֱרִ֣ישׁוּ הָעָ֔ם וְלֹֽא־עָנ֥וּ אֹת֖וֹ דָּבָ֑ר כִּי־מִצְוַ֨ת הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ הִ֛יא לֵאמֹ֖ר לֹ֥א תַעֲנֻֽהוּ׃ [2 Kings 18:36: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.36/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:589` 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 18:35 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.588/) - next →: [2 Kings 18:37 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.590/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 18:36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.36/)