--- title: 2 Kings 1:8 (JPS 1917) — And they answered him: 'He was a hairy man, and girt with a girdle o… · tree and pragmatics description: And they answered him: 'He was a hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins.' And he said: 'It is Elijah the Tishbite.' Who acts: messengers, LORD, manner. 2 Kings 1:8 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.7/) [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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/1/) / [1:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.1.8/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 1:8 · JPS 1917 And they answered him: 'He was a hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins.' And he said: 'It is Elijah the Tishbite.' **Who acts:** messengers, LORD, manner · **What happens:** answer, be, gird, say · **To what, where:** LORD, hairy man, Elijah · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Kings 1:8 · 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 (messengers, LORD, manner), 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:7 # text = And they answered him: 'He was a hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins.' And he said: 'It is Elijah the Tishbite.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 6 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 7 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 hairy hairy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 girt gird VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 girdle girdle NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 leather leather NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 about about ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 loins loin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 24 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 25 And and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 28 : : PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 29 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 30 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 Elijah Elijah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 ccomp _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Tishbite Tishbite PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ 36 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | messengers *= messenger* | | LORD | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | | 2 | **is a** | past | LORD | a hairy man | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **gird** | participle | LORD *not said here* | | | | | with a girdle of leather; about LORD's loins | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | LORD | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | manner | Elijah | | | | | tree rules | 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} וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ אֵלָ֗יו אִ֚ישׁ בַּ֣עַל שֵׂעָ֔ר וְאֵז֥וֹר ע֖וֹר אָז֣וּר בְּמָתְנָ֑יו וַיֹּאמַ֕ר אֵלִיָּ֥ה הַתִּשְׁבִּ֖י הֽוּא׃ [2 Kings 1:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.1.8/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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