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title: 2 Chronicles 11:12 (JPS 1917) — And Judah and Benjamin adhered to him. · tree and pragmatics
description: And Judah and Benjamin adhered to him. Who acts: Judah. 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 2 of 2

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And Judah and Benjamin adhered to him.

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**Who acts:** Judah · **What happens:** adhere · **To what, where:** Hebron

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This is 2 Chronicles 11:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (Judah), 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:244
# text = And Judah and Benjamin adhered to him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	adhered	adhere	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adhere** | past | Judah and Benjamin |  | Hebron |  |  |  | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to he=Co-Theme |

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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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.243/)
2. **And Judah and Benjamin adhered to him.**

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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:244` 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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