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title: 2 Kings 3:24 (JPS 1917) — And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them. Who acts: Moabites, Israelites. 2 Kings 3:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 3:24 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them.

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**Who acts:** Moabites, Israelites · **What happens:** come, rise up, smote, flee · **To what, where:** camp, Moabites

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This is 2 Kings 3:24 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (Moabites, Israelites), 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:72
# text = And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Israelites	israelite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	smote	smote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Moabites	moabite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	23	mark	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
24	before	before	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **come** | past | Moabites *= moabite* |  |  | the camp of Israel |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to camp=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **rise up** | past | the Israelites |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **smote** | past | the Israelites *not said here* | the Moabites |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **flee** | past | Moabites *= moabite* |  |  |  | before Israelites *= israelite* |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וַיָּבֹאוּ֮ אֶל־מַחֲנֵ֣ה יִשְׂרָאֵל֒ וַיָּקֻ֤מוּ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וַיַּכּ֣וּ אֶת־מוֹאָ֔ב וַיָּנֻ֖סוּ מִפְּנֵיהֶ֑ם וַיַּכּוּ־בָ֔הּ וְהַכּ֖וֹת אֶת־מוֹאָֽב׃

[2 Kings 3:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.3.24/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them.**
2. [And they smote the land, even Moab, mightily.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.73/)

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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:72` 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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