2 Kings 20:12 מְלָכִים ב

Who acts: Berodach baladan, baladan · What happens: send, hear · To what, where: letter

This is 2 Kings 20:12 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — Berodach baladan, baladan — and what happens in the verse to letter, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 25 chapters of 2 Kings on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

בָּעֵ֣ת הַהִ֡יא שָׁלַ֡ח בְּרֹאדַ֣כְ ֠בַּלְאֲדָן בְּרֹאדַ֣כְ ֠בַּלְאֲדָן בֶּֽן־בַּלְאֲדָ֧ן מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶ֛ל סְפָרִ֥ים וּמִנְחָ֖ה אֶל־חִזְקִיָּ֑הוּ כִּ֣י שָׁמַ֔ע כִּ֥י חָלָ֖ה חִזְקִיָּֽהוּ׃

At that time Berodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent a letter and a present unto Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

The tree

Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation	gloss
1	בָּ	בְּ	ADP	_	3 עֵ֣ת	case	at
2	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	3 עֵ֣ת	det	the
3	עֵ֣ת	עֵת	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 שָׁלַ֡ח	obl	time
4	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	5 הִ֡יא	det	(the)
5	הִ֡יא	הִיא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 עֵ֣ת	det	that
6	שָׁלַ֡ח	שָׁלַח	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he sent
7	בְּרֹאדַ֣כְ	בְּרֹאדַךְ	PROPN	_	6 שָׁלַ֡ח	nsubj	Merodach-Baladan
8	֠בַּלְאֲדָן	בַּלְאֲדָן	PROPN	_	7 בְּרֹאדַ֣כְ	flat:name
9	בְּרֹאדַ֣כְ	בְּרֹאדַךְ	PROPN	_	7 בְּרֹאדַ֣כְ	appos	Merodach-Baladan
10	֠בַּלְאֲדָן	בַּלְאֲדָן	PROPN	_	9 בְּרֹאדַ֣כְ	flat:name
11	בֶּֽן־	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	7 בְּרֹאדַ֣כְ	appos	the son
12	בַּלְאֲדָ֧ן	בַּלְאֲדָן	PROPN	_	11 בֶּֽן־	compound:smixut	of Baladan
13	מֶֽלֶךְ־	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	12 בַּלְאֲדָ֧ן	appos	the king
14	בָּבֶ֛ל	בָּבֶל	PROPN	_	13 מֶֽלֶךְ־	compound:smixut	of Babylon
15	סְפָרִ֥ים	סֵפֶר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	6 שָׁלַ֡ח	obj	letters
16	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	17 מִנְחָ֖ה	cc	and
17	מִנְחָ֖ה	מִנְחָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	15 סְפָרִ֥ים	conj	a gift
18	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	19 חִזְקִיָּ֑הוּ	case	to
19	חִזְקִיָּ֑הוּ	חִזְקִיָּהוּ	PROPN	_	6 שָׁלַ֡ח	obl	Hezekiah
20	כִּ֣י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	21 שָׁמַ֔ע	mark	(dm)
21	שָׁמַ֔ע	שָׁמַע	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	6 שָׁלַ֡ח	advcl	he had heard
22	כִּ֥י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	23 חָלָ֖ה	mark	(dm) that
23	חָלָ֖ה	חָלָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	21 שָׁמַ֔ע	ccomp	he had been sick
24	חִזְקִיָּֽהוּ	חִזְקִיָּהוּ	PROPN	_	23 חָלָ֖ה	nsubj	Hezekiah
25	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	24 חִזְקִיָּֽהוּ	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
speech: narration
negation: no

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
שָׁלַח he sent	qatal · qal	בְּרֹאדַכְ Merodach-Baladan	בָּבֶל of Babylon
שָׁמַע he had heard	qatal · qal	בְּרֹאדַכְ Merodach-Baladan	כִּי (dm) that
חָלָה he had been sick	qatal · qal	חָלָה he had been sick

MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

Targum Jonathan

בְּעִדָנָא הַהִיא שְׁלַח בְּרֹאדַךְ בַּלְאֲדָן בַּר בַּלְאֲדָן מַלְכָּא דְבָבֶל אִגָרָן וְקָרְבָּנִין לְוַת חִזְקִיָה אֲרֵי שְׁמַע אֲרֵי אִתְמְרַע חִזְקִיָה:

The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

English, JPS 1917

Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

At that time Berodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent a letter and a present unto Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. Tree, glosses and frames: MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew, CC BY 4.0; converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). Speech act: Mova's rules on the MACULA words (macula prag). Targum: Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

English: JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence wlc:2KI:576.

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