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title: 2 Chronicles 32:20 (JPS 1917) — And Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, praye… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven. Who acts: Hezekiah. 2 Chronicles 32:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 32:20 · JPS 1917

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And Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.

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**Who acts:** Hezekiah · **What happens:** pray, cry · **To what, where:** heaven

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This is 2 Chronicles 32:20 · 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 (Hezekiah), 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:752
# text = And Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	Hezekiah	Hezekiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Isaiah	Isaiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Amoz	Amoz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **pray** | past | Hezekiah and Isaiah |  |  |  |  | because this | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Hezekiah and Isaiah *not said here* |  | heaven |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to heaven=Recipient |

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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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וַיִּתְפַּלֵּ֞ל יְחִזְקִיָּ֣הוּ הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ וִֽישַֽׁעְיָ֧הוּ בֶן־אָמ֛וֹץ הַנָּבִ֖יא עַל־זֹ֑את וַֽיִּזְעֲק֖וּ הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃פ

[2 Chronicles 32:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.32.20/)

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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:752` 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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