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title: 2 Chronicles 18:8 (JPS 1917) — Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said: 'Fetch quickly… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said: 'Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.' Who acts: king. 2 Chronicles 18:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 18:8 · JPS 1917

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Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said: 'Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.'

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** call, say, fetch · **To what, where:** officer, Micaiah · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Chronicles 18:8 · 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 (king), 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:376
# text = Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said: 'Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	Micaiah	Micaiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Imla	Imla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | the king of Israel | a officer |  |  | then |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent officer=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king of Israel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **fetch** | infinitive |  | Micaiah |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent micaiah=Theme |

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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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וַיִּקְרָא֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֶל־סָרִ֖יס אֶחָ֑ד וַיֹּ֕אמֶר מַהֵ֖ר מִיכָ֥יְהוּ בֶן־יִמְלָֽא׃

[2 Chronicles 18:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.18.8/)

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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:376` 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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