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title: 2 Chronicles 12:4 (JPS 1917) — And he took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came unto Jerusalem. Who acts: Rehoboam, fortified cities. 2 Chronicles 12:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 12:4 · JPS 1917

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And he took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came unto Jerusalem.

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**Who acts:** Rehoboam, fortified cities · **What happens:** take, fortify, pertain, come · **To what, where:** fortified cities, Judah

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This is 2 Chronicles 12:4 · 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 (Rehoboam, fortified cities), 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:260
# text = And he took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came unto Jerusalem.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fortified	fortify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	pertained	pertain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **take** | past | Rehoboam | the fortified cities |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
| 2 | **fortify** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pertain** | past | the fortified cities |  | Judah |  |  |  | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to judah=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | Rehoboam *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Jerusalem | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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וַיִּלְכֹּ֛ד אֶת־עָרֵ֥י הַמְּצֻר֖וֹת אֲשֶׁ֣ר לִֽיהוּדָ֑ה וַיָּבֹ֖א עַד־יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ס

[2 Chronicles 12:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.12.4/)

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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:260` 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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