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title: 2 Kings 3:20 — And it came to pass in the morning, about the time of making the off… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And it came to pass in the morning, about the time of making the offering, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water. Who acts: piece, time, water. 2 Kings 3:20 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every cl
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# 2 Kings 3:20 מְלָכִים ב

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**Who acts:** piece, time, water · **What happens:** come, pass, make, fill · **To what, where:** offering, country

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This is 2 Kings 3:20 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — piece, time, water — and what happens in the verse to offering, country, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 25 chapters of 2 Kings on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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וַיְהִ֤י בַבֹּ֙קֶר֙ כַּעֲל֣וֹת הַמִּנְחָ֔ה וְהִנֵּה־מַ֥יִם בָּאִ֖ים מִדֶּ֣רֶךְ אֱד֑וֹם וַתִּמָּלֵ֥א הָאָ֖רֶץ אֶת־הַמָּֽיִם׃

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[And it came to pass in the morning, about the time of making the offering, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.68/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:2KI:62
# text = וַיְהִ֤י בַבֹּ֙קֶר֙ כַּעֲל֣וֹת הַמִּנְחָ֔ה וְהִנֵּה־מַ֥יִם בָּאִ֖ים מִדֶּ֣רֶךְ אֱד֑וֹם וַתִּמָּלֵ֥א הָאָ֖רֶץ אֶת־הַמָּֽיִם׃
# verse = 2KI.3.20
1-2	וַיְהִ֤י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=2KI_3:20!1|MId=o120030200011|Strong=2050b
2	יְהִ֤י	הָיָה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=it.was|Ref=2KI_3:20!1|MId=o120030200012|Strong=1961|Type=wayyiqtol
3-5	בַבֹּ֙קֶר֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	בַ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	5	case	_	Gloss=in|Ref=2KI_3:20!2|MId=o120030200021|Strong=0871a
4	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	5	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=2KI_3:20!2|MId=o120030200021ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
5	בֹּ֙קֶר֙	בֹּקֶר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Gloss=morning|Ref=2KI_3:20!2|MId=o120030200022|Strong=1242
6-7	כַּעֲל֣וֹת	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	כַּ	כְּ	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	Gloss=just|Ref=2KI_3:20!3|MId=o120030200031|Strong=3509a
7	עֲל֣וֹת	עָלָה	VERB	_	HebBinyan=QAL	2	advcl	_	Gloss=as.went.up|Ref=2KI_3:20!3|MId=o120030200032|Strong=5927|Frame=A0:;A1:120030200042;|Type=infinitive_construct
8-9	הַמִּנְחָ֔ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	9	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=2KI_3:20!4|MId=o120030200041|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
9	מִּנְחָ֔ה	מִנְחָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	7	obj	_	Gloss=offering|Ref=2KI_3:20!4|MId=o120030200042|Strong=4503
10-11	וְהִנֵּה־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
10	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	13	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=2KI_3:20!5|MId=o120030200051|Strong=2050b
11	הִנֵּה־	הִנֵּה	INTJ	_	_	13	discourse	_	Gloss=there!|Ref=2KI_3:20!5|MId=o120030200052|Strong=2009|Type=demonstrative
12	מַ֥יִם	מַיִם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	Gloss=waters|Ref=2KI_3:20!6|MId=o120030200061|Strong=4325
13	בָּאִ֖ים	בּוֹא	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur	2	conj	_	Gloss=[were].coming|Ref=2KI_3:20!7|MId=o120030200071|Strong=0935|Frame=A0:120030200061;|Type=participle_active
14-15	מִדֶּ֣רֶךְ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
14	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	_	15	case	_	Gloss=from|Ref=2KI_3:20!8|MId=o120030200081|Strong=4480
15	דֶּ֣רֶךְ	דֶּרֶךְ	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Gloss=the.direction|Ref=2KI_3:20!8|MId=o120030200082|Strong=1870
16	אֱד֑וֹם	אֱדוֹם	PROPN	_	_	15	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Edom|Ref=2KI_3:20!9|MId=o120030200091|Strong=0123
17-18	וַתִּמָּלֵ֥א	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
17	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	18	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=2KI_3:20!10|MId=o120030200101|Strong=2050b
18	תִּמָּלֵ֥א	מָלֵא	VERB	_	Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=it.was.filled|Ref=2KI_3:20!10|MId=o120030200102|Strong=4390|Frame=A1:120030200112;|Type=wayyiqtol
19-20	הָאָ֖רֶץ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
19	הָ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	20	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=2KI_3:20!11|MId=o120030200111|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
20	אָ֖רֶץ	אֶרֶץ	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	Gloss=land|Ref=2KI_3:20!11|MId=o120030200112|Strong=0776
21	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	23	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=2KI_3:20!12|MId=o120030200121|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No
22-23	הַמָּֽיִם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
22	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	23	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=2KI_3:20!13|MId=o120030200131|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
23	מָּֽיִם	מַיִם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	18	obl	_	Gloss=waters|Ref=2KI_3:20!13|MId=o120030200132|Strong=4325
24	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	23	punct	_	Ref=2KI_3:20!13
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| עֲלוֹת *as went up* | infinitive construct · qal |  | מִּנְחָה *offering* |  |  |
| בָּאִים *\[were\] coming* | participle active · qal | מַיִם *waters* |  |  |  |
| תִּמָּלֵא *it was filled* | wayyiqtol · niphal |  | אָרֶץ *land* |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos}

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וַהֲוָה בְּצַפְרָא כְּמִיסַק מִנְחָתָא וְהָא מַיָא אָתָן בְּאוֹרַח אֱדוֹם וְאִתְמְלִיאַת אַרְעָא יַת מַיָא:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [And it came to pass in the morning, about the time of making the offering, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.68/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:2KI:62`.

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