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title: 2 Kings 20:3 (JPS 1917) — 'Remember now, O LORD, I beseech Thee, how I have walked before Thee… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Remember now, O LORD, I beseech Thee, how I have walked before Thee in truth and with a whole heart, and have done that which is good in Thy sight.' And Hezekiah wept sore. Who acts: you, I, Hezekiah, Thy. 2 Kings 20:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 20:3 · JPS 1917

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'Remember now, O LORD, I beseech Thee, how I have walked before Thee in truth and with a whole heart, and have done that which is good in Thy sight.' And Hezekiah wept sore.

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**Who acts:** you, I, Hezekiah, Thy · **What happens:** remember, beseech, walk, do, be, weep · **To what, where:** Thee, truth, that, sight

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This is 2 Kings 20:3 · 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 (you, I, Hezekiah, Thy), 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:633
# text = 'Remember now, O LORD, I beseech Thee, how I have walked before Thee in truth and with a whole heart, and have done that which is good in Thy sight.' And Hezekiah wept sore.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	beseech	beseech	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	walked	walk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	obj	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
38	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	Hezekiah	Hezekiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
41	sore	sore	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	40	advmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now | LORD *vocative* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **beseech** | present | I | Thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **walk** | present · perfect | I |  |  | truth and a whole heart | before Thee |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before thou=Trajectory |
| 4 | **do** | present · perfect | I *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  | Thy sight |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **weep** | past | Hezekiah |  |  |  |  | sore *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **sight** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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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אָנָּ֣ה יְהוָ֗ה זְכָר־נָ֞א אֵ֣ת אֲשֶׁ֧ר הִתְהַלַּ֣כְתִּי לְפָנֶ֗יךָ בֶּֽאֱמֶת֙ וּבְלֵבָ֣ב שָׁלֵ֔ם וְהַטּ֥וֹב בְּעֵינֶ֖יךָ עָשִׂ֑יתִי וַיֵּ֥בְךְּ חִזְקִיָּ֖הוּ בְּכִ֥י גָדֽוֹל׃ס

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