--- title: 2 Chronicles 18:2 (JPS 1917) — And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the peo… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Ahab, people. 2 Chronicles 18:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.370/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [2 Chronicles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/) / [chapter 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/18/) / [18:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.18.2/) / JPS 2 # 2 Chronicles 18:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 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. **Who acts:** Ahab, people · **What happens:** kill, be, persuade, go up · **To what, where:** sheep, abundance, Ahab, Ramoth gilead This is 2 Chronicles 18:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (Ahab, people), 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:370 # text = 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. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Ahab Ahab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 oxen ox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 abundance abundance NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 persuaded persuade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 26 up up ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 Ramoth Ramoth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 32 gilead gilead PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kill** | past | Ahab | sheep and oxen | | abundance | | for Jehoshaphat | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | the people | | | | | with Jehoshaphat | tree rules | | 3 | **persuade** | past | Ahab *not said here* | Ahab | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result | | 4 | **go up** | to-infinitive | Ahab *not said here* | | Ramoth gilead | | | with Jehoshaphat | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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} 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/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [And after a lapse of years he went down to Ahab to Samaria.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.369/) 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.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:370` 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. - ← previous: [2 Chronicles 18:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.369/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 18:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.371/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 18:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.18.2/)