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title: 2 Chronicles 18:2 (JPS 1917) — And after a lapse of years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. · tree and pragmatics
description: And after a lapse of years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. Who acts: Jehoshaphat, years. 2 Chronicles 18:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 18:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And after a lapse of years he went down to Ahab to Samaria.

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**Who acts:** Jehoshaphat, years · **What happens:** go down, lapse · **To what, where:** Ahab

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This is 2 Chronicles 18:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (Jehoshaphat, years), 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:369
# text = And after a lapse of years he went down to Ahab to Samaria.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lapse	lapse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Ahab	Ahab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Samaria	Samaria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past | Jehoshaphat |  | Ahab |  | after a lapse of years | to Samaria; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **lapse** |  | years |  |  |  |  |  | nom lapse «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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וַיֵּרֶד֩ לְקֵ֨ץ שָׁנִ֤ים אֶל־אַחְאָב֙ לְשֹׁ֣מְר֔וֹן וַיִּֽזְבַּֽח־ל֨וֹ אַחְאָ֜ב צֹ֤אן וּבָקָר֙ לָרֹ֔ב וְלָעָ֖ם אֲשֶׁ֣ר עִמּ֑וֹ וַיְסִיתֵ֕הוּ לַעֲל֖וֹת אֶל־רָמ֥וֹת גִּלְעָֽד רָמ֥וֹת גִּלְעָֽד׃

[2 Chronicles 18:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.18.2/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And after a lapse of years he went down to Ahab to Samaria.**
2. [And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that were with him, and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramoth-gilead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.370/)

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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:369` 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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