--- title: 2 Chronicles 6:40 (JPS 1917) — Now, O my God, let, I beseech Thee, Thine eyes be open, and let Thin… · tree and pragmatics description: Now, O my God, let, I beseech Thee, Thine eyes be open, and let Thine ears be attent, unto the prayer that is made in this place. Who acts: you, I, eyes. 2 Chronicles 6:40 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.135/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [2 Chronicles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/) / [chapter 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/6/) / [6:40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.6.40/) / JPS 1 # 2 Chronicles 6:40 · JPS 1917 Now, O my God, let, I beseech Thee, Thine eyes be open, and let Thine ears be attent, unto the prayer that is made in this place. **Who acts:** you, I, eyes · **What happens:** let, beseech, be, make · **To what, where:** Thee, ears, prayer, place This is 2 Chronicles 6:40 · 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 (you, I, eyes), 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:135 # text = Now, O my God, let, I beseech Thee, Thine eyes be open, and let Thine ears be attent, unto the prayer that is made in this place. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 O o INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 vocative _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 beseech beseech VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 11 Thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 Thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 cop _ _ 16 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 ccomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 20 Thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 cop _ _ 23 attent attent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 ccomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 unto unto ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 prayer prayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 33 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | now | my God *vocative* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **beseech** | present | I | Thee | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | infinitive | Thine eyes | | | | | open *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Thine ears | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | | 5 | **is** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | unto the prayer; attent *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | present · passive | | the prayer | | this place | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | 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} עַתָּ֣ה אֱלֹהַ֗י יִֽהְיוּ־נָ֤א עֵינֶ֙יךָ֙ פְּתֻח֔וֹת וְאָזְנֶ֖יךָ קַשֻּׁב֑וֹת לִתְפִלַּ֖ת הַמָּק֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃ס [2 Chronicles 6:40: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.6.40/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:135` 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 Chronicles 6:39 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.134/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 6:41 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.136/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 6:40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.6.40/)