--- title: 2 Chronicles 13:7 (JPS 1917) — And there were gathered unto him vain men, base fellows that strengt… · tree and pragmatics description: And there were gathered unto him vain men, base fellows that strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and faint-hearted, and could not withstand them. 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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 (base fellows, Rehoboam), 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:281 # text = And there were gathered unto him vain men, base fellows that strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and faint-hearted, and could not withstand them. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 there there PRON EX _ 4 expl _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 gathered gather VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 base base ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 fellows fellow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 appos _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 strengthened strengthen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 13 obj _ _ 15 against against ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Rehoboam Rehoboam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Solomon Solomon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 when when SCONJ WRB _ 25 mark _ _ 23 Rehoboam Rehoboam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 advcl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 faint faint ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 29 hearted hearted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 withstand withstand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **gather** | past · passive | | vain men | | there | | unto Jeroboam | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **strengthen** | past | base fellows | men *= man* | | | | against Rehoboam | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | | 3 | **is** | past | Rehoboam | | | | | young *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | Rehoboam *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **withstand** | could | Rehoboam *not said here* | men *= man* | | | | | tree rules | 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} וַיִּקָּבְצ֣וּ עָלָ֗יו אֲנָשִׁ֤ים רֵקִים֙ בְּנֵ֣י בְלִיַּ֔עַל וַיִּֽתְאַמְּצ֖וּ עַל־רְחַבְעָ֣ם בֶּן־שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה וּרְחַבְעָ֗ם הָ֤יָה נַ֙עַר֙ וְרַךְ־לֵבָ֔ב וְלֹ֥א הִתְחַזַּ֖ק לִפְנֵיהֶֽם׃ [2 Chronicles 13:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.13.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:281` 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 13:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.280/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 13:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.282/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 13:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.13.7/)