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title: 2 Chronicles 18:6 (JPS 1917) — But Jehoshaphat said: 'Is there not here besides a prophet of the LO… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Jehoshaphat said: 'Is there not here besides a prophet of the LORD, that we might inquire of him?' Who acts: Jehoshaphat, prophet, we. 2 Chronicles 18:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 18:6 · JPS 1917

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But Jehoshaphat said: 'Is there not here besides a prophet of the LORD, that we might inquire of him?'

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**Who acts:** Jehoshaphat, prophet, we · **What happens:** say, not be, inquire · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Chronicles 18:6 · 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, prophet, we), 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:374
# text = But Jehoshaphat said: 'Is there not here besides a prophet of the LORD, that we might inquire of him?'
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Jehoshaphat	Jehoshaphat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	_	6	expl	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
10	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	inquire	inquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jehoshaphat |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **be** | present | a prophet of the LORD |  |  | here; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **inquire** *speech: other* | might | we |  |  |  |  | of Jehoshaphat | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of he=Recipient |

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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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וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ יְה֣וֹשָׁפָ֔ט הַאֵ֨ין פֹּ֥ה נָבִ֛יא לַיהוָ֖ה ע֑וֹד וְנִדְרְשָׁ֖ה מֵאֹתֽוֹ׃

[2 Chronicles 18:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.18.6/)

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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:374` 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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