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title: 2 Chronicles 13:4 (JPS 1917) — And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill-countr… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Chronicles 13:4 · JPS 1917

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And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, and said: 'Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel;

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**Who acts:** Abijah, Zemaraim · **What happens:** stand up, be, say, hear · **To what, where:** mount, hill country, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Chronicles 13:4 · 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 (Abijah, Zemaraim), 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:278
# text = And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, and said: 'Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Abijah	Abijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	mount	mount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	Zemaraim	Zemaraim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	acl:relcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Ephraim	Ephraim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	_
27	Jeroboam	Jeroboam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	vocative	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand up** | past | Abijah |  |  | mount |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon mount=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | Zemaraim |  |  | the hill country |  | of Ephraim | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Abijah *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **hear** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  | Jeroboam and all Israel *vocative* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |

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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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וַיָּ֣קָם אֲבִיָּ֗ה מֵעַל֙ לְהַ֣ר צְמָרַ֔יִם אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּהַ֣ר אֶפְרָ֑יִם וַיֹּ֕אמֶר שְׁמָע֖וּנִי יָרָבְעָ֥ם וְכָל־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[2 Chronicles 13:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.13.4/)

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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:278` 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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