--- title: 2 Kings 19:9 (JPS 1917) — And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia: 'Behold, he is c… · tree and pragmatics description: And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia: 'Behold, he is come out to fight against thee'; he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying: Who acts: king. 2 Kings 19:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.599/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [2 Kings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/) / [chapter 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/19/) / [19:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.9/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 19:9 · JPS 1917 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia: 'Behold, he is come out to fight against thee'; he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying: **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** hear, say, come out, fight, send · **To what, where:** messengers · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Kings 19:9 · 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 (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:2KI:599 # text = And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia: 'Behold, he is come out to fight against thee'; he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying: 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 5 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 Tirhakah Tirhakah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Ethiopia Ethiopia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 12 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 13 Behold behold INTJ UH _ 17 discourse _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 ccomp _ _ 18 out out ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 21 against against ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 20 obl _ _ 23 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 27 messengers messenger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 again again ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 29 unto unto ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Hezekiah Hezekiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 33 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | king | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | | | | of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **come out** | present · passive | king | | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **fight** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | | | | | against thee | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **send** | past | king | messengers | | | again | unto Hezekiah | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | king *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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} וַיִּשְׁמַ֗ע אֶל־תִּרְהָ֤קָה מֶֽלֶך־כּוּשׁ֙לֵאמֹ֔ר הִנֵּ֥ה יָצָ֖א לְהִלָּחֵ֣ם אִתָּ֑ךְ וַיָּ֙שָׁב֙ וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח מַלְאָכִ֔ים אֶל־חִזְקִיָּ֖הוּ לֵאמֹֽר׃ [2 Kings 19:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:599` 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. - ← previous: [2 Kings 19:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.598/) - next →: [2 Kings 19:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.600/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 19:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.9/)