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title: Isaiah 36:2 (JPS 1917) — And the king of Assyria sent Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem un… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the king of Assyria sent Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. Who acts: king. Isaiah 36:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 36:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And the king of Assyria sent Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** send · **To what, where:** Rab, Jerusalem, Lachish

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This is Isaiah 36:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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:ISA:736
# text = And the king of Assyria sent Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Assyria	Assyria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Rab	Rab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
9	shakeh	shakeh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Lachish	Lachish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
16	Hezekiah	Hezekiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the king of Assyria | Rab | Jerusalem | Lachish |  | unto king; with a great army | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent rab=Theme from lachish=Initial\_Location to jerusalem=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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וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח מֶֽלֶךְ־אַשּׁ֣וּר ׀ אֶת־רַב־שָׁקֵ֨ה מִלָּכִ֧ישׁ יְרוּשָׁלְַ֛מָה אֶל־הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ חִזְקִיָּ֖הוּ בְּחֵ֣יל כָּבֵ֑ד וַֽיַּעֲמֹ֗ד בִּתְעָלַת֙ הַבְּרֵכָ֣ה הָעֶלְיוֹנָ֔ה בִּמְסִלַּ֖ת שְׂדֵ֥ה כוֹבֵֽס׃

[Isaiah 36:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.36.2/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And the king of Assyria sent Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army.**
2. [And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fullers' field.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.737/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:736` 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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