--- title: 2 Chronicles 20:7 (JPS 1917) — Didst not Thou, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land be… · tree and pragmatics description: Didst not Thou, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before Thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham Thy friend for ever? Who acts: Thou. 2 Chronicles 20:7 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.425/) [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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/20/) / [20:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.20.7/) / JPS 1 # 2 Chronicles 20:7 · JPS 1917 Didst not Thou, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before Thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham Thy friend for ever? **Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** not drive out, give · **To what, where:** inhabitants, land, seed This is 2 Chronicles 20:7 · 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 (Thou), 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:425 # text = Didst not Thou, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before Thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham Thy friend for ever? 1 Didst do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 2 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 3 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 O o INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ _ 6 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 inhabitants inhabitant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 det _ _ 15 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 before before ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 19 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 gavest give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 22 obl _ _ 33 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - indirect: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **drive out** | past · do-support | Thou | the inhabitants of this land | | | before Thy people | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Theme before people=Destination | | 2 | **give** | past | Thou *not said here* | land | the seed of Abraham | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme to seed=Recipient for ever=Asset | 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} הֲלֹ֣א ׀ אַתָּ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֗ינוּ הוֹרַ֙שְׁתָּ֙ אֶת־יֹשְׁבֵי֙ הָאָ֣רֶץ הַזֹּ֔את מִלִּפְנֵ֖י עַמְּךָ֣ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַֽתִּתְּנָ֗הּ לְזֶ֛רַע אַבְרָהָ֥ם אֹֽהַבְךָ֖ לְעוֹלָֽם׃ [2 Chronicles 20:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.20.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:425` 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 20:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.424/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 20:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.426/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 20:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.20.7/)