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title: 2 Kings 4:8 (JPS 1917) — And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to… · tree and pragmatics
description: And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread. Who acts: man. 2 Kings 4:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 4:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** be, pass by, turn in, eat · **To what, where:** oil, bread

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This is 2 Kings 4:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (man), 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:87
# text = And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	oft	oft	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
12	by	by	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	csubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
20	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past |  | oil |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pass by** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **turn in** | past | man |  |  |  |  | oft, thither *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | bread |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |

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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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וַיְהִ֨י הַיּ֜וֹם וַיַּעֲבֹ֧ר אֱלִישָׁ֣ע אֶל־שׁוּנֵ֗ם וְשָׁם֙ אִשָּׁ֣ה גְדוֹלָ֔ה וַתַּחֲזֶק־בּ֖וֹ לֶאֱכָל־לָ֑חֶם וַֽיְהִי֙ מִדֵּ֣י עָבְר֔וֹ יָסֻ֥ר שָׁ֖מָּה לֶאֱכָל־לָֽחֶם׃

[2 Kings 4:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.8/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.86/)
2. **And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.**

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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:87` 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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