--- title: 2 Chronicles 19:8 (JPS 1917) — Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites and the pri… · tree and pragmatics description: Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites and the priests, and of the heads of the fathers' houses of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies. Who acts: Jehoshaphat. 2 Chronicles 19:8 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.413/) [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/) / [19:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.19.8/) / JPS 1 # 2 Chronicles 19:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites and the priests, and of the heads of the fathers' houses of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies. **Who acts:** Jehoshaphat · **What happens:** set, judge · **To what, where:** Jerusalem, LORD This is 2 Chronicles 19:8 · 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 (Jehoshaphat), 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:413 # text = Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites and the priests, and of the heads of the fathers' houses of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies. 1 Moreover moreover ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Jerusalem Jerusalem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 Jehoshaphat Jehoshaphat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Levites levite PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 priests priest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 ' 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 judgment judgment NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 controversies controversy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set** | past · do-support | Jehoshaphat | | | Jerusalem | | of the Levites and the priests and the heads of the fathers's houses of Israel; for the judgment of the LORD and controversies; moreover *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in jerusalem=Destination | | 2 | **judge** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom judgment «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} וְגַ֣ם בִּ֠ירוּשָׁלִַם הֶעֱמִ֨יד יְהוֹשָׁפָ֜ט מִן־הַלְוִיִּ֣ם וְהַכֹּהֲנִ֗ים וּמֵרָאשֵׁ֤י הָאָבוֹת֙ לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לְמִשְׁפַּ֥ט יְהוָ֖ה וְלָרִ֑יב וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ [2 Chronicles 19:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.19.8/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites and the priests, and of the heads of the fathers' houses of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies.** 2. [And they returned to Jerusalem.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.414/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:413` 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 19:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.412/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 19:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.414/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 19:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.19.8/)