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title: 2 Chronicles 7:13 (JPS 1917) — If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locus… · tree and pragmatics
description: If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people; Who acts: I. 2 Chronicles 7:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 7:13 · JPS 1917

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If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people;

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** shut up, command, devour, send · **To what, where:** heaven, locust, land, pestilence · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Chronicles 7:13 · 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 (I), 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:151
# text = If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people;
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shut	shut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	command	command	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	locust	locust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	pestilence	pestilence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	among	among	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut up** | present | I | heaven |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Patient |
| 2 | **command** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | the locust |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent locust=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **devour** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the land |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient |
| 4 | **send** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | pestilence |  |  |  | among My people | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pestilence=Theme |

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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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הֵ֣ן אֶֽעֱצֹ֤ר הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ וְלֹֽא־יִהְיֶ֣ה מָטָ֔ר וְהֵן־אֲצַוֶּ֥ה עַל־חָגָ֖ב לֶאֱכ֣וֹל הָאָ֑רֶץ וְאִם־אֲשַׁלַּ֥ח דֶּ֖בֶר בְּעַמִּֽי׃

[2 Chronicles 7:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.7.13/)

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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:151` 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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