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title: 2 Chronicles 17:12 (JPS 1917) — And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castl… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles and cities of store. Who acts: Jehoshaphat. 2 Chronicles 17:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 17:12 · JPS 1917

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And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles and cities of store.

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**Who acts:** Jehoshaphat · **What happens:** wax, build

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This is 2 Chronicles 17:12 · 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 (Jehoshaphat), 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:360
# text = And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles and cities of store.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Jehoshaphat	Jehoshaphat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	waxed	wax	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	castles	castle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	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 | **wax** | past | Jehoshaphat |  |  |  |  | exceedingly, great *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **build** | past | Jehoshaphat |  |  |  |  | in Judah castles and cities of store | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in castle=Attribute |

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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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וַיְהִ֧י יְהוֹשָׁפָ֛ט הֹלֵ֥ךְ וְגָדֵ֖ל עַד־לְמָ֑עְלָה וַיִּ֧בֶן בִּֽיהוּדָ֛ה בִּירָנִיּ֖וֹת וְעָרֵ֥י מִסְכְּנֽוֹת׃

[2 Chronicles 17:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.17.12/)

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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:360` 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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