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title: 2 Kings 20:14 (JPS 1917) — Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him: 'What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee?' And Hezekiah said: 'They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.' Who acts: Isaiah, men, Hezekiah. 2 Kings 20:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# 2 Kings 20:14 · JPS 1917

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Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him: 'What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee?' And Hezekiah said: 'They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.'

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**Who acts:** Isaiah, men, Hezekiah · **What happens:** come, say · **To what, where:** men, far country · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 20:14 · 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, men, 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:644
# text = Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him: 'What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee?' And Hezekiah said: 'They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Isaiah	Isaiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	Hezekiah	Hezekiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
16	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	obl	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
26	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	obl	_	_
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
30	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	Hezekiah	Hezekiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
35	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	ccomp	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	even	even	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
47	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Isaiah |  |  |  | then | unto king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Isaiah *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Isaiah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | this men |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 4 | **come** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | unto thee | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from whence=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Hezekiah |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **come** | present · passive | men *= man* |  |  | a far country |  | from Babylon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from country=Initial\_Location from babylon=Destination |

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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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וַיָּבֹא֙ יְשַֽׁעְיָ֣הוּ הַנָּבִ֔יא אֶל־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ חִזְקִיָּ֑הוּ וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אֵלָ֜יו מָ֥ה אָמְר֣וּ ׀ הָאֲנָשִׁ֣ים הָאֵ֗לֶּה וּמֵאַ֙יִן֙ יָבֹ֣אוּ אֵלֶ֔יךָ וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ חִזְקִיָּ֔הוּ מֵאֶ֧רֶץ רְחוֹקָ֛ה בָּ֖אוּ מִבָּבֶֽל׃

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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:644` of Mova's parse database.

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