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title: 2 Kings 18:22 (JPS 1917) — But if ye say unto me: We trust in the LORD our God; is not that He,… · tree and pragmatics
description: But if ye say unto me: We trust in the LORD our God; is not that He, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem: Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem? Who acts: ye, We, that, Hezekiah. 2 Kings 18:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency 
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# 2 Kings 18:22 · JPS 1917

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But if ye say unto me: We trust in the LORD our God; is not that He, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem: Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

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**Who acts:** ye, We, that, Hezekiah · **What happens:** say, trust, not be, take away, worship · **To what, where:** God, high places, Judah · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 18:22 · 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 (ye, We, that, 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:2KI:574
# text = But if ye say unto me: We trust in the LORD our God; is not that He, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem: Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
8	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	trust	trust	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
19	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
21	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	altars	altar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	Hezekiah	Hezekiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
40	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
41	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	43	nsubj	_	_
42	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	worship	worship	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	ccomp	_	_
44	before	before	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	46	det	_	_
46	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
49	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | ye |  |  |  |  | unto me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **trust** | present | We |  |  |  |  | in the LORD | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | that | God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take away** | present · perfect | Hezekiah | high places and high places and high places's altars's altars |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | Hezekiah *not said here* |  | Judah and Jerusalem |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to judah=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 6 | **worship** | shall | Ye |  |  |  | before this altar in Jerusalem |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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וְכִי־תֹאמְר֣וּן אֵלַ֔י אֶל־יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ בָּטָ֑חְנוּ הֲלוֹא־ה֗וּא אֲשֶׁ֨ר הֵסִ֤יר חִזְקִיָּ֙הוּ֙ אֶת־בָּמֹתָ֣יו וְאֶת־מִזְבְּחֹתָ֔יו וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לִֽיהוּדָה֙ וְלִיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם לִפְנֵי֙ הַמִּזְבֵּ֣חַ הַזֶּ֔ה תִּֽשְׁתַּחֲו֖וּ בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

[2 Kings 18:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.22/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:574` of Mova's parse database.

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