--- title: 2 Chronicles 12:12 (JPS 1917) — And when he humbled himself, the anger of the LORD turned from him,… · tree and pragmatics description: And when he humbled himself, the anger of the LORD turned from him, that He would not destroy him altogether; and moreover in Judah there were good things found. 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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, anger, good things, 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:268 # text = And when he humbled himself, the anger of the LORD turned from him, that He would not destroy him altogether; and moreover in Judah there were good things found. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 humbled humble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 5 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 destroy destroy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 altogether altogether ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 moreover moreover ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 28 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 29 expl _ _ 29 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 30 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 32 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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 | **humble** | past | king | king | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | | 2 | **turn** | past | the anger of the LORD | | | | | from king | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from he=Trajectory | | 3 | **not** **destroy** | would | king | LORD | | | | altogether *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 4 | **be** | past | good things | | | Judah; there | | moreover *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in judah=Location | | 5 | **find** | participle | | good things *not said here* | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **anger** | | the LORD | | | | | | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: of=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} וּבְהִכָּֽנְע֗וֹ שָׁ֤ב מִמֶּ֙נּוּ֙ אַף־יְהוָ֔ה וְלֹ֥א לְהַשְׁחִ֖ית לְכָלָ֑ה וְגַם֙ בִּֽיהוּדָ֔ה הָיָ֖ה דְּבָרִ֥ים טוֹבִֽים׃ס [2 Chronicles 12:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.12.12/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:268` 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 12:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.267/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 12:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.269/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 12:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.12.12/)