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title: 2 Chronicles 20:9 (JPS 1917) — If evil come upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine,… · tree and pragmatics
description: If evil come upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and before Thee — for Thy name is in this house — and cry unto Thee in our affliction, and Thou wilt hear and save. Who acts: evil, we, name, Thou. 2 Chronicles 20:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency 
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# 2 Chronicles 20:9 · JPS 1917

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If evil come upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and before Thee — for Thy name is in this house — and cry unto Thee in our affliction, and Thou wilt hear and save.

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**Who acts:** evil, we, name, Thou, Thy, our · **What happens:** come, stand, be, cry, hear, save · **To what, where:** house, affliction

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This is 2 Chronicles 20:9 · 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 (evil, we, name, 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:427
# text = If evil come upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and before Thee — for Thy name is in this house — and cry unto Thee in our affliction, and Thou wilt hear and save.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	pestilence	pestilence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	before	before	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	before	before	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	conj	_	_
28	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
29	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
30	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	advcl	_	_
36	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
39	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	obl	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	affliction	affliction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	48	nsubj	_	_
47	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	conj	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | evil and the sword and judgment or pestilence or famine |  |  |  |  | upon us | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon we=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | future | we |  |  | this house |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before house=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | Thy name |  |  | this house |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  | our affliction |  | unto Thee | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in affliction=Location |
| 5 | **hear** | future | Thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **save** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **name** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **afflict** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom affliction «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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אִם־תָּב֨וֹא עָלֵ֜ינוּ רָעָ֗ה חֶרֶב֮ שְׁפוֹט֮ וְדֶ֣בֶר וְרָעָב֒ נַֽעַמְדָ֞ה לִפְנֵ֨יהַבַּ֤יִת הַזֶּה֙ וּלְפָנֶ֔יךָ כִּ֥י שִׁמְךָ֖ בַּבַּ֣יִת הַזֶּ֑ה וְנִזְעַ֥ק אֵלֶ֛יךָ מִצָּרָתֵ֖נוּ וְתִשְׁמַ֥ע וְתוֹשִֽׁיעַ׃

[2 Chronicles 20:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.20.9/)

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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:427` of Mova's parse database.

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