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title: 2 Kings 4:14 (JPS 1917) — And he said: 'What then is to be done for her?' And Gehazi answered:… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he said: 'What then is to be done for her?' And Gehazi answered: 'Verily she hath no son, and her husband is old.' Who acts: man, Gehazi, servant, husband. 2 Kings 4:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 4:14 · JPS 1917

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And he said: 'What then is to be done for her?' And Gehazi answered: 'Verily she hath no son, and her husband is old.'

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**Who acts:** man, Gehazi, servant, husband · **What happens:** say, do, answer, have, be · **To what, where:** son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 4:14 · 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 (man, Gehazi, servant, husband), 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:93
# text = And he said: 'What then is to be done for her?' And Gehazi answered: 'Verily she hath no son, and her husband is old.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
6	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	Gehazi	Gehazi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
21	Verily	verily	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | present · passive |  |  |  |  | then | for servant | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Gehazi |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | servant | no son |  |  |  | verily *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present | servant's husband |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |

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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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וַיֹּ֕אמֶר וּמֶ֖ה לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת לָ֑הּ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר גֵּיחֲזִ֗י אֲבָ֛ל בֵּ֥ן אֵֽין־לָ֖הּ וְאִישָׁ֥הּ זָקֵֽן׃

[2 Kings 4:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.14/)

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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:93` 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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