--- title: 2 Kings 22:18 (JPS 1917) — But unto the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thu… · tree and pragmatics description: But unto the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him: Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: As touching the words which thou hast heard, Who acts: king, you, ye, LORD. 2 Kings 22:18 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.695/) [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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/22/) / [22:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.22.18/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 22:18 · JPS 1917 But unto the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him: Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: As touching the words which thou hast heard, **Who acts:** king, you, ye, LORD, thou · **What happens:** send, inquire, say, touch, hear · **To what, where:** you, LORD, words · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Kings 22:18 · 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 (king, you, ye, LORD), 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:695 # text = But unto the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him: Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: As touching the words which thou hast heard, 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 2 unto unto ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 to to SCONJ TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 inquire inquire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 17 thus thus ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 20 nsubj _ _ 20 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 Thus thus ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 : : PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 34 As as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 touching touch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 obj _ _ 39 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 41 nsubj _ _ 40 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 37 acl:relcl _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character, act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | the king of Judah | you | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **inquire** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | of the LORD | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of lord=Recipient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | ye | | LORD | | | unto the king of Judah; thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD | | | | | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **touch** | gerund | the LORD *not said here* | the words | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme word=Co-Theme | | 6 | **hear** | present · perfect | thou | the words | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | 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} וְאֶל־מֶ֣לֶךְ יְהוּדָ֗ה הַשֹּׁלֵ֤חַ אֶתְכֶם֙ לִדְרֹ֣שׁ אֶת־יְהוָ֔ה כֹּ֥ה תֹאמְר֖וּ אֵלָ֑יו כֹּֽה־אָמַ֤ר יְהוָה֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל הַדְּבָרִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר שָׁמָֽעְתָּ׃ [2 Kings 22:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.22.18/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:695` 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 22:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.694/) - next →: [2 Kings 22:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.696/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 22:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.22.18/)