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title: 2 Chronicles 18:21 (JPS 1917) — And He said: Thou shalt entice him, and shalt prevail also; go forth… · tree and pragmatics
description: And He said: Thou shalt entice him, and shalt prevail also; go forth, and do so. Who acts: LORD, Thou. 2 Chronicles 18:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 18:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And He said: Thou shalt entice him, and shalt prevail also; go forth, and do so.

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**Who acts:** LORD, Thou · **What happens:** say, entice, prevail, go, do · **To what, where:** LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Chronicles 18:21 · 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 (LORD, Thou), 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:392
# text = And He said: Thou shalt entice him, and shalt prevail also; go forth, and do so.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
6	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	entice	entice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	prevail	prevail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
16	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **entice** | shall | Thou | LORD |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 3 | **prevail** | shall | Thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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וַיֹּ֗אמֶר אֵצֵא֙ וְהָיִ֙יתִי֙ לְר֣וּחַ שֶׁ֔קֶר בְּפִ֖י כָּל־נְבִיאָ֑יו וַיֹּ֗אמֶר תְּפַתֶּה֙ וְגַם־תּוּכָ֔ל צֵ֖א וַעֲשֵׂה־כֵֽן׃

[2 Chronicles 18:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.18.21/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And he said: I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.391/)
2. **And He said: Thou shalt entice him, and shalt prevail also; go forth, and do so.**

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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:392` 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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