--- title: 2 Kings 21:19 (JPS 1917) — Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign; and he rei… · tree and pragmatics description: Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. 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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 (Amon, name, mother), 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:670 # text = Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. 1 Amon amon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 3 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 advmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 conj _ _ 6 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 when when SCONJ WRB _ 10 mark _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 reign reign VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 reigned reign VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 17 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Jerusalem Jerusalem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 Meshullemeth Meshullemeth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Haruz Haruz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Jotbah Jotbah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **is** | past | Amon | | | | year | old *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **begin** | past | Amon | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **reign** | to-infinitive | Amon *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **reign** | past | Amon | | | Jerusalem | year | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | past | Amon's mother's name | Meshullemeth | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **name** | | Amon's mother | | | | | | nom name «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} בֶּן־עֶשְׂרִ֨ים וּשְׁתַּ֤יִם שָׁנָה֙ אָמ֣וֹן בְּמָלְכ֔וֹ וּשְׁתַּ֣יִם שָׁנִ֔ים מָלַ֖ךְ בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וְשֵׁ֣ם אִמּ֔וֹ מְשֻׁלֶּ֥מֶת בַּת־חָר֖וּץ מִן־יָטְבָֽה׃ [2 Kings 21:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.21.19/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:670` 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 21:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.669/) - next →: [2 Kings 21:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.671/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 21:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.21.19/)