--- title: 2 Chronicles 19:7 (JPS 1917) — Now therefore let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do… · tree and pragmatics description: Now therefore let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.' Who acts: you, fear, iniquity. 2 Chronicles 19:7 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.412/) [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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/19/) / [19:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.19.7/) / JPS 1 # 2 Chronicles 19:7 · JPS 1917 Now therefore let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.' **Who acts:** you, fear, iniquity · **What happens:** let, be, take, do, fear, respect · **To what, where:** fear, heed, bribes, LORD, persons This is 2 Chronicles 19:7 · 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 (you, fear, iniquity), 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:412 # text = Now therefore let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.' 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 LORD lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 10 upon upon ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 xcomp _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 heed heed NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 do do VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 for for SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 21 expl _ _ 21 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 22 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 23 det _ _ 23 iniquity iniquity NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 31 cc _ _ 31 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 persons person NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 36 cc _ _ 36 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 conj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 bribes bribe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 40 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | the fear of the LORD | | | now | therefore *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Theme | | 2 | **is** | infinitive | the fear of the LORD *not said here* | | | | | upon you | tree rules | | 3 | **take** | infinitive | | heed | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme | | 4 | **do** | infinitive | | heed | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 5 | **be** | present | no iniquity with the LORD nor respect of persons | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **take** | gerund | no iniquity with the LORD nor respect of persons *not said here* | bribes | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bribe=Theme | | 7 | **fear** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **respect** | | | persons | | | | | nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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} וְעַתָּ֕ה יְהִ֥י פַֽחַד־יְהוָ֖ה עֲלֵיכֶ֑ם שִׁמְר֣וּ וַעֲשׂ֔וּ כִּֽי־אֵ֞ין עִם־יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֗ינוּ עַוְלָ֛ה וּמַשֹּׂ֥א פָנִ֖ים וּמִקַּח־שֹֽׁחַד׃ [2 Chronicles 19:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.19.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:412` 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 19:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.411/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 19:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.413/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 19:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.19.7/)