--- title: 2 Kings 24:2 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of t… · tree and pragmatics description: And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Arameans, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke by the hand of His servants the prophets. 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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 (LORD, Jehoiakim), 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:737 # text = And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Arameans, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke by the hand of His servants the prophets. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 against against ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 bands band NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Chaldeans Chaldeans PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 bands band NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Arameans Arameans PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 bands band NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Moabites Moabites PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 bands band NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Ammon Ammon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 against against ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 destroy destroy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 44 case _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 41 fixed _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 49 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 51 obj _ _ 50 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 51 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 acl:relcl _ _ 52 by by ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ _ 55 of of ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 57 nmod:poss _ _ 57 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 nmod _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 prophets prophet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 appos _ _ 60 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **send** | past | the LORD | bands of the Chaldeans and bands of the Arameans and bands of the Moabites and bands of the children of Ammon | | | | against Jehoiakim | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Theme | | 2 | **send** | past | the LORD *not said here* | bands *= band* | | | | against Judah; accord the word of the LORD | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **destroy** | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* | servant | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Jehoiakim | the word of the LORD | | | | by the hand of Jehoiakim's servants | tree rules | | 6 | **word** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} וַיְשַׁלַּ֣ח יְהוָ֣ה ׀ בּ֡וֹ אֶת־גְּדוּדֵ֣י כַשְׂדִּים֩ וְאֶת־גְּדוּדֵ֨י אֲרָ֜ם וְאֵ֣ת ׀ גְּדוּדֵ֣י מוֹאָ֗ב וְאֵת֙ גְּדוּדֵ֣י בְנֵֽי־עַמּ֔וֹן וַיְשַׁלְּחֵ֥ם בִּֽיהוּדָ֖ה לְהַֽאֲבִיד֑וֹ כִּדְבַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר דִּבֶּ֔ר בְּיַ֖ד עֲבָדָ֥יו הַנְּבִיאִֽים׃ [2 Kings 24:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.24.2/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:737` 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 24:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.736/) - next →: [2 Kings 24:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.738/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 24:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.24.2/)