--- title: Isaiah 39:1 (JPS 1917) — At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, s… · tree and pragmatics description: At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent a letter and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and was recovered. Who acts: Merodach baladan, baladan. 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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 (Merodach baladan, baladan), 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:828 # text = At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent a letter and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and was recovered. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 4 Merodach Merodach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 baladan baladan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Baladan Baladan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Babylon Babylon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 16 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Hezekiah Hezekiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 for for SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 cop _ _ 32 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 ccomp _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 recovered recover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | Merodach baladan | a letter and a present | Hezekiah | | time | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to hezekiah=Destination | | 2 | **hear** | past | baladan | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | past · perfect | baladan | | | | | sick *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **recover** | past · passive | baladan *not said here* | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» | 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} בָּעֵ֣ת הַהִ֡וא שָׁלַ֡ח מְרֹדַ֣כְ ֠בַּלְאֲדָן מְרֹדַ֣כְ ֠בַּלְאֲדָן בֶּֽן־בַּלְאֲדָ֧ן מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶ֛ל סְפָרִ֥ים וּמִנְחָ֖ה אֶל־חִזְקִיָּ֑הוּ וַיִּשְׁמַ֕ע כִּ֥י חָלָ֖ה וַֽיֶּחֱזָֽק׃ [Isaiah 39:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.39.1/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:828` 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: [Isaiah 38:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.827/) - next →: [Isaiah 39:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.829/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 39:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.39.1/)