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title: 2 Chronicles 20:6 (JPS 1917) — and he said: 'O LORD, the God of our fathers, art not Thou alone God… · tree and pragmatics
description: and he said: 'O LORD, the God of our fathers, art not Thou alone God in heaven? and art not Thou ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? and in Thy hand is power and might, so that none is able to withstand Thee. Who acts: Jehoshaphat, Thou, none. 2 Chronicles 20:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependenc
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# 2 Chronicles 20:6 · JPS 1917

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and he said: 'O LORD, the God of our fathers, art not Thou alone God in heaven? and art not Thou ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? and in Thy hand is power and might, so that none is able to withstand Thee.

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**Who acts:** Jehoshaphat, Thou, none · **What happens:** say, not be, be, withstand · **To what, where:** God, heaven, ruler, kingdoms, power, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Chronicles 20:6 · 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 (Jehoshaphat, Thou, none), 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:424
# text = and he said: 'O LORD, the God of our fathers, art not Thou alone God in heaven? and art not Thou ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? and in Thy hand is power and might, so that none is able to withstand Thee.
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	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	vocative	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
17	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
18	alone	alone	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
19	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
27	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	might	might	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	49	mark	_	_
46	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	fixed	_	_
47	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	49	nsubj	_	_
48	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
49	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	advcl	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	withstand	withstand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	xcomp	_	_
52	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	51	obj	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jehoshaphat |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | Thou | God |  | heaven |  | LORD *vocative* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | Thou | ruler |  | all kingdoms of the nations |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Jehoshaphat *not said here* | power and might |  | Thy hand |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | none |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **withstand** | to-infinitive | none *not said here* | Thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וַיֹּאמַ֗ר יְהוָ֞ה אֱלֹהֵ֤י אֲבֹתֵ֙ינוּ֙ הֲלֹ֨א אַתָּֽה־ה֤וּא אֱלֹהִים֙ בַּשָּׁמַ֔יִם וְאַתָּ֣ה מוֹשֵׁ֔ל בְּכֹ֖ל מַמְלְכ֣וֹת הַגּוֹיִ֑ם וּבְיָדְךָ֙ כֹּ֣חַ וּגְבוּרָ֔ה וְאֵ֥ין עִמְּךָ֖ לְהִתְיַצֵּֽב׃

[2 Chronicles 20:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.20.6/)

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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:424` 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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