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title: 2 Chronicles 6:24 (JPS 1917) — And if Thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, when they… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if Thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, when they sin against Thee, and shall turn again and confess Thy name, and pray and make supplication before Thee in this house; Who acts: people, Thy. 2 Chronicles 6:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# 2 Chronicles 6:24 · JPS 1917

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And if Thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, when they sin against Thee, and shall turn again and confess Thy name, and pray and make supplication before Thee in this house;

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**Who acts:** people, Thy · **What happens:** smite down, sin, turn, confess, pray, make · **To what, where:** people, name, supplication, house

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This is 2 Chronicles 6:24 · 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 (people, Thy), 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:2CH:119
# text = And if Thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, when they sin against Thee, and shall turn again and confess Thy name, and pray and make supplication before Thee in this house;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	smitten	smite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sin	sin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
16	against	against	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	confess	confess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
25	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
32	supplication	supplication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	before	before	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	obl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
37	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smite down** | infinitive · passive |  | Thy people |  |  | before the enemy |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **sin** | present | people |  |  |  |  | against Thee | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against thou=Maleficiary |
| 3 | **turn** | shall |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **confess** | infinitive |  | Thy name |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic |
| 5 | **pray** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **make** | infinitive |  | supplication |  | this house | before Thee |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset supplication=Product |
| 7 | **name** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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וְֽאִם־יִנָּגֵ֞ף עַמְּךָ֧ יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל לִפְנֵ֥י אוֹיֵ֖ב כִּ֣י יֶֽחֶטְאוּ־לָ֑ךְ וְשָׁ֙בוּ֙ וְהוֹד֣וּ אֶת־שְׁמֶ֔ךָ וְהִתְפַּֽלְל֧וּ וְהִֽתְחַנְּנ֛וּ לְפָנֶ֖יךָ בַּבַּ֥יִת הַזֶּֽה׃

[2 Chronicles 6:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.6.24/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:119` 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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