--- title: 2 Chronicles 18:27 (JPS 1917) — And Micaiah said: 'If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath not… · tree and pragmatics description: And Micaiah said: 'If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath not spoken by me.' And he said: 'Hear, ye peoples, all of you.' 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And he said: 'Hear, ye peoples, all of you.' **Who acts:** Micaiah, thou, LORD · **What happens:** say, return, not speak, hear · **To what, where:** peace · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Chronicles 18:27 · 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 (Micaiah, thou, 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:398 # text = And Micaiah said: 'If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath not spoken by me.' And he said: 'Hear, ye peoples, all of you.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Micaiah Micaiah 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 : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 6 If if SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 nsubj _ _ 8 return return VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 all all ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 ccomp _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 22 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 23 And and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 27 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 vocative _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 all all PRON DT PronType=Tot 28 vocative _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 37 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Micaiah | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **return** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thou | | | peace | | all *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | the LORD | | | | | by me | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Micaiah | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **hear** | infinitive | | | | | | ye's peoples *vocative*; all *vocative* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | 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} וַיֹּ֣אמֶר מִיכָ֔יְהוּ אִם־שׁ֤וֹב תָּשׁוּב֙ בְּשָׁל֔וֹם לֹא־דִבֶּ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה בִּ֑י וַיֹּ֕אמֶר שִׁמְע֖וּ עַמִּ֥ים כֻּלָּֽם׃פ [2 Chronicles 18:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.18.27/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:398` 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 18:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.397/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 18:28 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.399/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 18:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.18.27/)