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title: 2 Chronicles 6:21 (JPS 1917) — And hearken Thou to the supplications of Thy servant, and of Thy peo… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Chronicles 6:21 · JPS 1917

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And hearken Thou to the supplications of Thy servant, and of Thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place; yea, hear Thou from Thy dwelling-place, even from heaven; and when Thou hearest, forgive.

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**Who acts:** Thou, servants · **What happens:** hearken, pray, hear, forgive, supplicate · **To what, where:** dwelling place, servant

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This is 2 Chronicles 6:21 · 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 (Thou, servants), 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:2CH:116
# text = And hearken Thou to the supplications of Thy servant, and of Thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place; yea, hear Thou from Thy dwelling-place, even from heaven; and when Thou hearest, forgive.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	supplications	supplication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
15	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	20	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
21	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
28	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	nmod:poss	_	_
31	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	_
33	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	even	even	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
40	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	42	mark	_	_
41	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	42	nsubj	_	_
42	hearest	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	advcl	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
44	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hearken** | infinitive | Thou |  |  |  |  | to the supplications of Thy servant and Thy people | tree rules |
| 2 | **pray** | shall | servants *= servant* |  |  |  |  | toward this place | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **hear** | infinitive | Thou |  |  | Thy dwelling place and heaven |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from place=Source |
| 4 | **hear** | present | Thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **forgive** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **supplicate** |  |  | Thy servant and Thy people |  |  |  |  | nom supplication «communication transitive»: of=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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וְשָׁ֨מַעְתָּ֜ אֶל־תַּחֲנוּנֵ֤י עַבְדְּךָ֙ וְעַמְּךָ֣ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִֽתְפַּֽלְל֖וּ אֶל־הַמָּק֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה וְ֠אַתָּה תִּשְׁמַ֞ע מִמְּק֤וֹם שִׁבְתְּךָ֙ מִן־הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֖ וְסָלָֽחְתָּ׃

[2 Chronicles 6:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.6.21/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:116` of Mova's parse database.

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