--- title: 2 Chronicles 11:4 (JPS 1917) — Thus saith the LORD: Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your bret… · tree and pragmatics description: Thus saith the LORD: Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren; return every man to his house, for this thing is of Me.' So they hearkened unto the words of the LORD, and returned from going against Jeroboam. 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So they hearkened unto the words of the LORD, and returned from going against Jeroboam. **Who acts:** LORD, Ye, man, thing, men · **What happens:** say, not go up, fight, return, be, hearken · **To what, where:** Jeroboam, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Chronicles 11:4 · 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 (LORD, Ye, man, thing), 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:235 # text = Thus saith the LORD: Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren; return every man to his house, for this thing is of Me.' So they hearkened unto the words of the LORD, and returned from going against Jeroboam. 1 Thus thus ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 Ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nsubj _ _ 7 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 13 cc _ _ 13 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 14 against against ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 brethren brethren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 18 return return VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 20 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 for for SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 26 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 det _ _ 27 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 advcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 32 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 33 So so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 hearkened hearken VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 36 unto unto ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 45 from from SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 46 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 44 advcl _ _ 47 against against ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 Jeroboam Jeroboam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD | | | | | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **go up** | shall | Ye | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **fight** | infinitive | Ye *not said here* | | | | | against your brethren | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **return** | infinitive | every man | | | | | to LORD's house *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | | 5 | **is** | present | this thing | | | | | of Me | tree rules | | 6 | **hearken** | past | men *= man* | | | | | unto the words of the LORD | tree rules | | 7 | **return** | past | men *= man* *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **go** | gerund | men *= man* *not said here* | | | Jeroboam | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against jeroboam=Location | | 9 | **word** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} כֹּ֣ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֡ה לֹא־תַעֲלוּ֩ וְלֹא־תִלָּ֨חֲמ֜וּ עִם־אֲחֵיכֶ֗ם שׁ֚וּבוּ אִ֣ישׁ לְבֵית֔וֹ כִּ֧י מֵֽאִתִּ֛י נִהְיָ֖ה הַדָּבָ֣ר הַזֶּ֑ה וַֽיִּשְׁמְעוּ֙ אֶת־דִּבְרֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ מִלֶּ֥כֶת אֶל־יָרָבְעָֽם׃פ [2 Chronicles 11:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.11.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:235` 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 11:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.234/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 11:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.236/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 11:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.11.4/)