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title: 2 Chronicles 32:9 (JPS 1917) — After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jeru… · tree and pragmatics
description: After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem — now he was before Lachish, and all his power with him — unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying: Who acts: Sennacherib king, king, Judah. 2 Chronicles 32:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependen
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# 2 Chronicles 32:9 · JPS 1917

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After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem — now he was before Lachish, and all his power with him — unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying:

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**Who acts:** Sennacherib king, king, Judah · **What happens:** send, be, say · **To what, where:** servants, Jerusalem · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Chronicles 32:9 · 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 (Sennacherib king, king, Judah), 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:740
# text = After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem — now he was before Lachish, and all his power with him — unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying:
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	obl	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	Sennacherib	Sennacherib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Assyria	Assyria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Lachish	Lachish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Hezekiah	Hezekiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
29	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
36	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	acl:relcl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
43	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **send** | past · do-support | Sennacherib king of Assyria | king's servants | Jerusalem |  | after this | unto Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent servant=Theme to jerusalem=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | king |  |  |  | before Lachish and king's power with Assyria; now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | all Judah |  |  | Jerusalem |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Sennacherib king of Assyria *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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אַ֣חַר זֶ֗ה שָׁ֠לַח סַנְחֵרִ֨יב מֶֽלֶךְ־אַשּׁ֤וּר עֲבָדָיו֙ יְר֣וּשָׁלַ֔יְמָה וְהוּא֙ עַל־לָכִ֔ישׁ וְכָל־מֶמְשַׁלְתּ֖וֹ עִמּ֑וֹ עַל־יְחִזְקִיָּ֙הוּ֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ יְהוּדָ֔ה וְעַל־כָּל־יְהוּדָ֛ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם לֵאמֹֽר׃

[2 Chronicles 32:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.32.9/)

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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:740` 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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