--- title: 2 Chronicles 10:7 (JPS 1917) — And they spoke unto him, saying: 'If thou be kind to this people, an… · tree and pragmatics description: And they spoke unto him, saying: 'If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.' 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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, thou), 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:218 # text = And they spoke unto him, saying: 'If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 10 If if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 nsubj _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 cop _ _ 13 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 advcl _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 please please VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 24 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 31 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 cop _ _ 33 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 ccomp _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 34 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 38 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | people | | | | | unto father | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | thou | | | | | to this people; kind *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **please** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | people | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | thou *not said here* | good words | people | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | future | people | thy servants | | | then | | tree rules | 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} וַיְדַבְּר֨וּ אֵלָ֜יו לֵאמֹ֗ר אִם־תִּֽהְיֶ֨ה לְט֜וֹב לְהָעָ֤ם הַזֶּה֙ וּרְצִיתָ֔ם וְדִבַּרְתָּ֥ אֲלֵהֶ֖ם דְּבָרִ֣ים טוֹבִ֑ים וְהָי֥וּ לְךָ֛ עֲבָדִ֖ים כָּל־הַיָּמִֽים׃ [2 Chronicles 10:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.10.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:218` 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 10:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.217/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 10:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.219/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 10:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.10.7/)