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title: 2 Chronicles 16:4 (JPS 1917) — And Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the store-cities of Naphtali. Who acts: Ben, captains. 2 Chronicles 16:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# 2 Chronicles 16:4 · JPS 1917

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And Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the store-cities of Naphtali.

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**Who acts:** Ben, captains · **What happens:** hearken, send, smite · **To what, where:** captains, Ijon

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This is 2 Chronicles 16:4 · 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 (Ben, captains), 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:336
# text = And Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the store-cities of Naphtali.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	hadad	Hadad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	hearkened	hearken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	Asa	Asa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	captains	captain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	against	against	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	Ijon	Ijon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	Dan	Dan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	Abelmaim	Abelmaim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
35	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	39	det:predet	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	_
39	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Naphtali	Naphtali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **hearken** | past | Ben |  |  |  |  | unto king | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | past | Ben *not said here* | the captains of king's armies |  |  |  | against the cities of Israel | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Theme |
| 3 | **smite** | past | captains *= captain* | Ijon and Dan and Abelmaim and all store cities of Naphtali |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ijon=Experiencer |

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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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וַיִּשְׁמַ֨ע בֶּנ הֲדַ֜דבֶּנ הֲדַ֜ד אֶל־הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ אָסָ֗א וַ֠יִּשְׁלַח אֶת־שָׂרֵ֨י הַחֲיָלִ֤ים אֲשֶׁר־לוֹ֙ אֶל־עָרֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיַּכּוּ֙ אֶת־עִיּ֣וֹן וְאֶת־דָּ֔ן וְאֵ֖ת אָבֵ֣ל מָ֑יִם אָבֵ֣ל מָ֑יִם וְאֵ֥ת כָּֽל־מִסְכְּנ֖וֹת עָרֵ֥י נַפְתָּלִֽי׃

[2 Chronicles 16:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.16.4/)

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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:336` 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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