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title: 2 Chronicles 16:3 (JPS 1917) — 'There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my fath… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father; behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasa king of Israel, that he may depart from me.' Who acts: league, I, king. 2 Chronicles 16:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the prag
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# 2 Chronicles 16:3 · JPS 1917

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'There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father; behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasa king of Israel, that he may depart from me.'

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**Who acts:** league, I, king · **What happens:** be, send, go, break, depart · **To what, where:** silver, thee, league

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This is 2 Chronicles 16:3 · 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 (league, I, king), 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:335
# text = 'There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father; behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasa king of Israel, that he may depart from me.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	league	league	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
14	between	between	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
26	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	iobj	_	_
27	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
31	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	break	break	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
34	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	league	league	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Baasa	Baasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
46	from	from	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	obl	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
49	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=request, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a league between me |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | a league between me *not said here* |  |  | there |  | between my father and thy father | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between father=Location |
| 3 | **send** | present · perfect | I | silver and gold | thee |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Destination silver=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **break** | infinitive |  | thy league |  |  |  | with Baasa | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent league=Patient with baasa=Instrument |
| 6 | **depart** | may | king |  |  |  |  | from me | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from i=Initial\_Location |

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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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בְּרִית֙ בֵּינִ֣י וּבֵינֶ֔ךָ וּבֵ֥ין אָבִ֖י וּבֵ֣ין אָבִ֑יךָ הִנֵּ֨ה שָׁלַ֤חְתִּֽי לְךָ֙ כֶּ֣סֶף וְזָהָ֔ב לֵ֞ךְ הָפֵ֣ר בְּרִֽיתְךָ֗ אֶת־בַּעְשָׁא֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְיַעֲלֶ֖ה מֵעָלָֽי׃

[2 Chronicles 16:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.16.3/)

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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:335` 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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