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title: 2 Chronicles 13:12 (JPS 1917) — O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD, the God of your… · tree and pragmatics
description: O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD, the God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.' Who acts: ye. 2 Chronicles 13:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 13:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD, the God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.'

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** not fight, not prosper

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This is 2 Chronicles 13:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (ye), 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:287
# text = O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD, the God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.'
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	vocative	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	fight	fight	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
9	against	against	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	prosper	prosper	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=warn, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fight** | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  | against the LORD; children of Israel *vocative* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **prosper** | shall | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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וְהִנֵּה֩ עִמָּ֨נוּ בָרֹ֜אשׁ הָאֱלֹהִ֧ים ׀ וְכֹהֲנָ֛יו וַחֲצֹצְר֥וֹת הַתְּרוּעָ֖ה לְהָרִ֣יעַ עֲלֵיכֶ֑ם בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אַל־תִּלָּֽחֲמ֛וּ עִם־יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵֽי־אֲבֹתֵיכֶ֖ם כִּי־לֹ֥א תַצְלִֽיחוּ׃

[2 Chronicles 13:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.13.12/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And, behold, God is with us at our head, and His priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.286/)
2. **O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD, the God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.'**

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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:287` 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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