--- title: 2 Chronicles 7:17 (JPS 1917) — And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before Me as David thy father wal… · tree and pragmatics description: And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before Me as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep My statutes and Mine ordinances; Who acts: thou, David, I, Mine. 2 Chronicles 7:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.155/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [2 Chronicles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/) / [chapter 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/7/) / [7:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.7.17/) / JPS 1 # 2 Chronicles 7:17 · JPS 1917 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before Me as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep My statutes and Mine ordinances; **Who acts:** thou, David, I, Mine · **What happens:** walk, do, accord, command, keep, ordain · **To what, where:** thee, statutes · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Chronicles 7:17 · 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 (thou, David, I, Mine), 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:155 # text = And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before Me as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep My statutes and Mine ordinances; 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 4 case _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 2 fixed _ _ 4 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 if if SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nsubj _ _ 8 wilt will AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 before before ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 16 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 20 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 case _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 20 fixed _ _ 22 all all PRON DT PronType=Tot 19 obl _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 obj _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 commanded command VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 acl:relcl _ _ 27 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 wilt will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 32 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 statutes statute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 Mine mine PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 ordinances ordinance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | future | thou | | | | before Me | as thee | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before i=Trajectory | | 2 | **walk** | past | David | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **do** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | | | | | accord all | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **command** | present · perfect | I | thee | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **keep** | future | thou *not said here* | My statutes and Mine ordinances | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statute=Theme | | 7 | **ordain** | | Mine | | | | | | nom ordinance «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וְאַתָּ֞ה אִם־תֵּלֵ֣ךְ לְפָנַ֗י כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר הָלַךְ֙ דָּוִ֣יד אָבִ֔יךָ וְלַעֲשׂ֕וֹת כְּכֹ֖ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר צִוִּיתִ֑יךָ וְחֻקַּ֥י וּמִשְׁפָּטַ֖י תִּשְׁמֽוֹר׃ [2 Chronicles 7:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.7.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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