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title: 2 Kings 3:15 (JPS 1917) — But now bring me a minstrel.' And it came to pass, when the minstrel… · tree and pragmatics
description: But now bring me a minstrel.' And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him. Who acts: you, minstrel, hand. 2 Kings 3:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 3:15 · JPS 1917

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But now bring me a minstrel.' And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.

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**Who acts:** you, minstrel, hand · **What happens:** bring, come, pass, play · **To what, where:** minstrel, me

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This is 2 Kings 3:15 · 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 (you, minstrel, hand), 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:63
# text = But now bring me a minstrel.' And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	expl	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | imperative | you *not said here* | a minstrel | me |  | now |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination minstrel=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | you *not said here* | minstrel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **play** | past | the minstrel |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **come** | past | the hand of the LORD |  |  |  |  | upon LORD | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location |

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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}

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וְעַתָּ֖ה קְחוּ־לִ֣י מְנַגֵּ֑ן וְהָיָה֙ כְּנַגֵּ֣ן הַֽמְנַגֵּ֔ן וַתְּהִ֥י עָלָ֖יו יַד־יְהוָֽה׃

[2 Kings 3:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.3.15/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:63` 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.

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