--- title: 2 Chronicles 7:19 (JPS 1917) — But if ye turn away, and forsake My statutes and My commandments whi… · tree and pragmatics description: But if ye turn away, and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; Who acts: ye, I, My. 2 Chronicles 7:19 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.157/) [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/) / [7:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.7.19/) / JPS 1 # 2 Chronicles 7:19 · JPS 1917 But if ye turn away, and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; **Who acts:** ye, I, My · **What happens:** turn away, forsake, set, go, serve, worship · **To what, where:** statutes, other gods · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Chronicles 7:19 · 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 (ye, 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:157 # text = But if ye turn away, and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 if if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 4 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 away away ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 forsake forsake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 9 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 statutes statute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 commandments commandment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 obj _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl:relcl _ _ 18 before before ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 26 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 worship worship VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn away** | present | ye | | | | | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **forsake** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | My statutes and My commandments | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **set** | present · perfect | I | My statutes and My commandments | | | before you | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme before you=Destination | | 4 | **go** | shall | ye *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **serve** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | other gods | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Attribute | | 6 | **worship** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | statutes *= statute* | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 7 | **command** | | My | | | | | | nom commandment «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} וְאִם־תְּשׁוּב֣וּן אַתֶּ֔ם וַעֲזַבְתֶּם֙ חֻקּוֹתַ֣י וּמִצְוֺתַ֔י אֲשֶׁ֥ר נָתַ֖תִּי לִפְנֵיכֶ֑ם וַהֲלַכְתֶּ֗ם וַעֲבַדְתֶּם֙ אֱלֹהִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֔ים וְהִשְׁתַּחֲוִיתֶ֖ם לָהֶֽם׃ [2 Chronicles 7:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.7.19/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:157` 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. - ← previous: [2 Chronicles 7:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.156/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 7:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.158/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 7:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.7.19/)