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title: 2 Chronicles 6:39 (JPS 1917) — then hear Thou from heaven, even from Thy dwelling-place, their pray… · tree and pragmatics
description: then hear Thou from heaven, even from Thy dwelling-place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause; and forgive Thy people who have sinned against Thee. Who acts: Thou, people. 2 Chronicles 6:39 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 6:39 · JPS 1917

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then hear Thou from heaven, even from Thy dwelling-place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause; and forgive Thy people who have sinned against Thee.

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**Who acts:** Thou, people · **What happens:** hear, maintain, forgive, sin, pray, supplicate · **To what, where:** prayer, heaven, cause, people

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This is 2 Chronicles 6:39 · 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, people), 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:134
# text = then hear Thou from heaven, even from Thy dwelling-place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause; and forgive Thy people who have sinned against Thee.
1	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	supplications	supplication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	maintain	maintain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	sinned	sin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	against	against	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **hear** | infinitive | Thou | people's prayer and people's supplications |  | heaven | then | from Thy dwelling place | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic from heaven=Source |
| 2 | **maintain** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | people's cause |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent cause=Theme |
| 3 | **forgive** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | Thy people |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 4 | **sin** | present · perfect | Thy people |  |  |  |  | against Thee | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against thou=Maleficiary |
| 5 | **pray** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **supplicate** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom supplication «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **cause** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֨מִן־הַשָּׁמַ֜יִם מִמְּכ֣וֹן שִׁבְתְּךָ֗ אֶת־תְּפִלָּתָם֙ וְאֶת־תְּחִנֹּ֣תֵיהֶ֔ם וְעָשִׂ֖יתָ מִשְׁפָּטָ֑ם וְסָלַחְתָּ֥ לְעַמְּךָ֖ אֲשֶׁ֥ר חָֽטְאוּ־לָֽךְ׃

[2 Chronicles 6:39: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.6.39/)

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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:134` 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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