--- title: 2 Chronicles 10:15 (JPS 1917) — So the king hearkened not unto the people; for it was brought about… · tree and pragmatics description: So the king hearkened not unto the people; for it was brought about of God, that the LORD might establish His word, which He spoke by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. 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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 (king, God, LORD), 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:226 # text = So the king hearkened not unto the people; for it was brought about of God, that the LORD might establish His word, which He spoke by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hearkened hearken VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 6 unto unto ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 for for SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 14 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl:agent _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 establish establish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 23 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 obj _ _ 27 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 by by ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Ahijah Ahijah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Shilonite Shilonite PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 appos _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Jeroboam Jeroboam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 appos _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 Nebat Nebat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **hearken** | past | the king | | | | | unto the people | tree rules | | 2 | **bring about** | past · passive | God | counsel | | | | about *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **establish** | might | the LORD | king's word | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | king | king's word | Jeroboam | | | by the hand of Ahijah | tree rules | | 5 | **word** | | king | | | | | | nom word «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} וְלֹֽא־שָׁמַ֥ע הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ אֶל־הָעָ֑ם כִּֽי־הָיְתָ֤ה נְסִבָּה֙ מֵעִ֣ם הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים לְמַעַן֩ הָקִ֨ים יְהוָ֜ה אֶת־דְּבָר֗וֹ אֲשֶׁ֤ר דִּבֶּר֙ בְּיַד֙ אֲחִיָּ֣הוּ הַשִּֽׁלוֹנִ֔י אֶל־יָרָבְעָ֖ם בֶּן־נְבָֽט׃ [2 Chronicles 10:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.10.15/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:226` 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 10:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.225/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 10:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.227/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 10:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.10.15/)