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title: 2 Kings 20:7 (JPS 1917) — And Isaiah said: 'Take a cake of figs.' And they took and laid it on… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Isaiah said: 'Take a cake of figs.' And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered. Who acts: Isaiah, figs. 2 Kings 20:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 20:7 · JPS 1917

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And Isaiah said: 'Take a cake of figs.' And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

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**Who acts:** Isaiah, figs · **What happens:** say, take, lay, recover · **To what, where:** cake, boil · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 20:7 · 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 (Isaiah, figs), 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:637
# text = And Isaiah said: 'Take a cake of figs.' And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Isaiah	Isaiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	boil	boil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	recovered	recover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Isaiah |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive |  | a cake of figs |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | figs *= fig* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lay** | past | figs *= fig* *not said here* | cake |  | the boil |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on boil=Destination |
| 5 | **recover** | past | Isaiah |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְשַֽׁעְיָ֔הוּ קְח֖וּ דְּבֶ֣לֶת תְּאֵנִ֑ים וַיִּקְח֛וּ וַיָּשִׂ֥ימוּ עַֽל־הַשְּׁחִ֖ין וַיֶּֽחִי׃

[2 Kings 20:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.20.7/)

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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:637` 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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