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title: 2 Chronicles 11:12 (JPS 1917) — And in every city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding… · tree and pragmatics
description: And in every city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong. Who acts: Hebron. 2 Chronicles 11:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 11:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And in every city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong.

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**Who acts:** Hebron · **What happens:** put, make · **To what, where:** shields, city

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This is 2 Chronicles 11:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (Hebron), 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:243
# text = And in every city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	shields	shield	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	exceeding	exceeding	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Hebron | shields and spears |  | every city |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shield=Theme in city=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | past | Hebron *not said here* | shields *= shield* |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |

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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}

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וּבְכָל־עִ֤יר וָעִיר֙ צִנּ֣וֹת וּרְמָחִ֔ים וַֽיְחַזְּקֵ֖ם לְהַרְבֵּ֣ה מְאֹ֑ד וַיְהִי־ל֖וֹ יְהוּדָ֥ה וּבִנְיָמִֽן׃ס

[2 Chronicles 11:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.11.12/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And in every city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong.**
2. [And Judah and Benjamin adhered to him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.244/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:243` 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.

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