--- title: 2 Chronicles 13:10 (JPS 1917) — But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken Him; an… · tree and pragmatics description: But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken Him; and we have priests ministering unto the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work; Who acts: LORD, we, priests, sons. 2 Chronicles 13:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.284/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [2 Chronicles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/) / [chapter 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/13/) / [13:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.13.10/) / JPS 1 # 2 Chronicles 13:10 · JPS 1917 But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken Him; and we have priests ministering unto the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work; **Who acts:** LORD, we, priests, sons · **What happens:** be, not forsake, have, minister, work · **To what, where:** God, LORD, priests This is 2 Chronicles 13:10 · 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 (LORD, we, priests, sons), 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:284 # text = But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken Him; and we have priests ministering unto the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work; 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 2 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 4 case _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 2 fixed _ _ 4 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 forsaken forsake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 17 Him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 22 priests priest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 ministering minister VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 24 unto unto ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Aaron Aaron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Levites Levite PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the LORD | our God | | | | as us | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **forsake** | present · perfect | we | LORD | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | we | priests | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Patient | | 4 | **minister** | gerund | priests *not said here* | | | | | unto the LORD and the sons of Aaron and the Levites in sons's work | tree rules | | 5 | **work** | | sons *= son* | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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} וַאֲנַ֛חְנוּ יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ וְלֹ֣א עֲזַבְנֻ֑הוּ וְכֹ֨הֲנִ֜ים מְשָׁרְתִ֤ים לַֽיהוָה֙ בְּנֵ֣י אַהֲרֹ֔ן וְהַלְוִיִּ֖ם בַּמְלָֽאכֶת׃ [2 Chronicles 13:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.13.10/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:284` 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 13:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.283/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 13:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.285/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 13:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.13.10/)