--- title: 2 Chronicles 18:23 (JPS 1917) — Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon… · tree and pragmatics description: Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the check, and said: 'Which way went the spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?' Who acts: Zedekiah. 2 Chronicles 18:23 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.394/) [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/) / [18:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.18.23/) / JPS 1 # 2 Chronicles 18:23 · JPS 1917 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the check, and said: 'Which way went the spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?' **Who acts:** Zedekiah · **What happens:** come near, smote, say, go, speak · **To what, where:** Micaiah, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Chronicles 18:23 · 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 (Zedekiah), 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:394 # text = Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the check, and said: 'Which way went the spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?' 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 2 Zedekiah Zedekiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Chenaanah Chenaanah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 near near ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 smote smote VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 Micaiah Micaiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 upon upon ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 check check NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 20 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 21 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 22 det _ _ 22 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 23 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 33 unto unto ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 32 obl _ _ 35 ? ? PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ 36 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come near** | past | Zedekiah | | | | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **smote** | past | Zedekiah *not said here* | Micaiah | | | | upon the check | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Zedekiah *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **go** | past | | which way | | | | from me | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spirit=Theme | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | | | | | | unto thee | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} וַיִּגַּשׁ֙ צִדְקִיָּ֣הוּ בֶֽן־כְּנַעֲנָ֔ה וַיַּ֥ךְ אֶת־מִיכָ֖יְהוּ עַל־הַלֶּ֑חִי וַיֹּ֗אמֶר אֵ֣י זֶ֤ה הַדֶּ֙רֶךְ֙ עָבַ֧ר רֽוּחַ־יְהוָ֛ה מֵאִתִּ֖י לְדַבֵּ֥ר אֹתָֽךְ׃ [2 Chronicles 18:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.18.23/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:394` 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 18:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.393/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 18:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.395/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 18:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.18.23/)