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title: 2 Chronicles 18:19 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD said: who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the LORD said: who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? Who acts: LORD. 2 Chronicles 18:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 18:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And the LORD said: who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** say, entice, go up, fall · **To what, where:** Ahab, Ramoth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Chronicles 18:19 · 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 (LORD), 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:387
# text = And the LORD said: who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	entice	entice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
9	Ahab	Ahab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Ramoth	Ramoth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	gilead	gilead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **entice** | shall |  | Ahab |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ahab=Experiencer |
| 3 | **go up** | may | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **fall** | infinitive | LORD *not said here* |  |  | Ramoth |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at ramoth=Location |

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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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֗ה מִ֤י יְפַתֶּה֙ אֶת־אַחְאָ֣ב מֶֽלֶךְ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְיַ֕עַל וְיִפֹּ֖ל בְּרָמ֣וֹת גִּלְעָ֑ד רָמ֣וֹת גִּלְעָ֑ד וַיֹּ֕אמֶר זֶ֚ה אֹמֵ֣ר כָּ֔כָה וְזֶ֖ה אֹמֵ֥ר כָּֽכָה׃

[2 Chronicles 18:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.18.19/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And the LORD said: who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?**
2. [And one spoke saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.388/)

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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:387` 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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