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title: 2 Chronicles 13:13 (JPS 1917) — But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them; so they… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them; so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them. Who acts: Jeroboam, ambushment, fathers. 2 Chronicles 13:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 13:13 · JPS 1917

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But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them; so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.

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**Who acts:** Jeroboam, ambushment, fathers · **What happens:** cause, come about, be · **To what, where:** ambushment

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This is 2 Chronicles 13:13 · 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 (Jeroboam, ambushment, fathers), 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:288
# text = But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them; so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Jeroboam	Jeroboam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ambushment	ambushment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ambushment	ambushment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | Jeroboam | a ambushment |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come about** | to-infinitive | a ambushment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind fathers *= father*; about *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | fathers *= father* |  |  |  | before Judah |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the ambushment |  |  |  |  | behind children *= child* | tree rules |

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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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וְיָֽרָבְעָ֗ם הֵסֵב֙ אֶת־הַמַּאְרָ֔ב לָב֖וֹא מֵֽאַחֲרֵיהֶ֑ם וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה וְהַמַּאְרָ֖ב מֵאַחֲרֵיהֶֽם׃

[2 Chronicles 13:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.13.13/)

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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:288` 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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