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title: 2 Chronicles 7:14 (JPS 1917) — if My people, upon whom My name is called, shall humble themselves,… · tree and pragmatics
description: if My people, upon whom My name is called, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. Who acts: people, I, My. 2 Chronicles 7:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the p
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# 2 Chronicles 7:14 · JPS 1917

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if My people, upon whom My name is called, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

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**Who acts:** people, I, My · **What happens:** call, humble, pray, seek, turn, hear · **To what, where:** name, people, face, evil ways, heaven, sin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Chronicles 7:14 · 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, I, My), 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:152
# text = if My people, upon whom My name is called, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
1	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
7	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	humble	humble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
31	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
32	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	heal	heal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
47	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · passive |  | My name |  |  |  | upon My people | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **humble** *a condition, not said to happen* | shall | My people | people |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer |
| 3 | **pray** | infinitive | My people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **seek** | infinitive | My people *not said here* | My face |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme |
| 5 | **turn** | infinitive | My people *not said here* |  |  | people's evil ways |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from way=Trajectory |
| 6 | **hear** | future | I |  |  | heaven | then |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from heaven=Source |
| 7 | **forgive** | future | I *not said here* | people's sin |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=Theme |
| 8 | **heal** | future | I *not said here* | people's land |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent land=Patient |
| 9 | **name** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | 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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וְיִכָּנְע֨וּ עַמִּ֜י אֲשֶׁ֧ר נִֽקְרָא־שְׁמִ֣י עֲלֵיהֶ֗ם וְיִֽתְפַּֽלְלוּ֙ וִֽיבַקְשׁ֣וּ פָנַ֔י וְיָשֻׁ֖בוּ מִדַּרְכֵיהֶ֣ם הָרָעִ֑ים וַאֲנִי֙ אֶשְׁמַ֣ע מִן־הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וְאֶסְלַח֙ לְחַטָּאתָ֔ם וְאֶרְפָּ֖א אֶת־אַרְצָֽם׃

[2 Chronicles 7:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.7.14/)

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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:152` of Mova's parse database.

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